Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
It's not snow, it's traffic calming
Important lessons from New York about how snow banks "take back space" , slow down traffic and do not hinder drivers at all in going about their business.
Watch the video explaining how it works on the snowy streets of New York City at Streetfilms
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Permalink Reply by james walsh on
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Here's another view of New York snow and how they deal with it. City worker trying to extract a friends vehicle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt_r-jO3lKE&feature=player_embedded
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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Yes amusing James, no city has a monopoly on stupidity I suppose, but this post isn't about how NYC deals with snow, its about what temporary changes to roads can teach us about the design of streets and how taking back space from cars doesn't actually hamper them and benefits other users like pedestrians who get more pavement space.
I'd rather this post didn't turn into any kind of thread about the uselessness or otherwise of snow clearance in cities but sticks to the main point about traffic calming measures and street redesign.
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Liz* I see what you mean. Londons streets were laid out in late 1660's after the fire (mostly). Train lines carve london up forcing roads over bridges and thru tunnels causing long detours and delays. New yorks streets/avenues are extra-wide and straight. If London had the benefit of being demolished and rebuilt in modern times to encompass motor vehicles we could then reasonabley compare london to say, paris. Perhaps milton Keynes would be a good model to discuss 'Neckdowns'. Definetely something to think about.
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The City was laid out on medieval lines, James, but Harringay didn't exist in its current form until the beginning of the 20th century. These ideas about re-designing streets are being explored across the country in Victorian suburbs like ours, including up the road in Turnpike Lane.
The point that comes across most forcibly to me is how much space we have allowed cars to remove from us and the marvellous opportunity the snow afforded to prove that cars drivers can adapt very quickly to reduced space as well as painlessly i.e. no smashdown speed bumps, reduce speed.
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