Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Is it Desirable to **** up Traffic on Wightman?
Seen on Wightman today. Isn’t traffic disruption on Wightman just what was needed?
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Permalink Reply by jp quethiock on
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To my mind these road works are inviting a death or serious injury of a cyclist.
Had Haringey simply put in a continuous cycle path along Wightman Road on the east side, as it has done in very small part for the bridge over the railway at the southern end, then the high volumes of morning commuter cyclists would be spared having to negotiate with motor vehicles all the traps where the narrowing and chicanes have been put in. I now witness cyclists both on the inside and outside of vehicles, going onto the footpaths to avoid danger (and so endangering those lesser mortals on the transport foodchain, pedestrians) and fighting to get into gaps in the queues of vehicles where traffic slows or stops. It should be a wonderful thing to calm and reduce motor traffic but making life harder and dangerous for the cyclists is a nonsense. A continuous cycle lane with small separators from the rest of the roadway plus more old fashioned sleeping policemen (or even more old fashioned cobblestone surfaces) would have sufficed to produce a calmer and safer roadway.
Surely Haringey Council staff must have known that high volumes of cyclists use Wightman Road and that their measures are forcing them into the whirlwind of motorists competing for the limited spaces created. I speak as an occasional cyclist who doesn't cycle the wrong way down one way roads or jumps the lights and believes he can do what the hell he likes but this scheme will punish even the best behaved cyclists.
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Permalink Reply by Neil Kirk on
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No!
We all have to deal with the issues of living in a congested city.
Making the roads safer for all users is a desired outcome but "fucking up the traffic" is not a desired outcome. It increases frustration and danger.
I sense a residual hankering for Wightman Road to be closed again.
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