Tags for Forum Posts: traffic, wightman bridge, wightman bridge closure
During this COVID lockdown period we could explore our Living Streets again.
BEST POST YET!!!! Hurrah for the kids.
It is lovely to see Wightman Road returned to a residential street.
I have also noticed an increase in birdsong. Lovely. Maybe its just that I can hear the birdsong now?
More photos, please. If you can con them into looking at the camera like the kids in your 100 year old photos that would be really cool.
This is wonderful. I'd like to add to the chorus of approval. I haven't been woken up by HGVs thundering down my road at all hours, nor has the waste lorry which zooms down Falkland Road illegally at about 12.30am most days been an issue. I had a chat with a friend of mine who works at the London Assembly planning bicycle infrastructure who's pretty sure that we can apply to make the closure permanent if the traffic eases. And he's fairly certain it will. Imagine that!
How do we apply? Could get part of the application contribution from year 6 pupils in both ladder schools ... maybe.
Yes it would be wonderful to have Wightman Road closed to motorised traffic on a permanent basis. People would adapt.
Changes are happening in London. If you don't know about it already you may want to read up about the "mini-Holland" scheme developed in Waltham Forest. A few other boroughs have won TfL money for similar schemes. (Someone from Haringey Cycling Campaign may be able to comment about whether Haringey wanted to bid). Waltham Forest mini-Holland caused a lot of (predictable) outcry from businesses who thought they would suffer with timed pedestrianisation of certain areas. What that failed to understand is... it's people who spend money in shops, not cars. Green Lanes anyone? Another fundamental element of the scheme was: if you improve an area for pedestrians and cyclists, you improve it for EVERYONE. http://www.enjoywalthamforest.co.uk/about-mini-holland/
"Someone" could lead a HOL bike ride up to Waltham Forest to have a look at what they've done?! I'd be up for that. Keep meaning to have a look but never got round to it.
Mini-Holland for Green Lanes!!!
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