Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
New Harringay traffic plan to be unveiled ... soon ... (-ish) ... maybe ...
It was announced at a recent residents' meeting that the Council are planning to plan an event at which Mike Hakata will bring forward the Haringey/TfL plans to manage traffic in Harringay ward. The measures will affect both the Ladder and the Harringay stretch of Green Lanes.
The date of said meeting however seems to be something of a moving feast: a planned post-summer meeting became an autumn one which has now become just a blank space.
Personally, whatever the date, whilst I'm prepared to be pleasantly surprised, twenty years of dashed hopes has left my current expectations measured in the extreme.
What with the extra pressure placed on Green Lanes by the various LTNs to the east, the options for much in the way of ward-wide traffic management seem very limited. They could still take measures around limiting parking on Green Lanes by cannibalising residents spaces on the Ladder rung roads and the Gardens. If they want to, they could also limit traffic on the rung roads.
Let's see what several years of deliberation bring in this pre-election year ... or maybe next year (perhaps). (My apologies for the uncharacteristic pessimism).
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Permalink Reply by Jamie Harper
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It's quite galling to see these people turn up again, knowing that nothing will be implemented before the May '26 elections. False promises and snakeoil from Mr. Hakata and his colleagues.
The likely changes to parking will necessarily increase traffic on rung roads and Wightman. In the same way that improvements to some residential streets to the east have negatively impacted the ladder, so too will changes to the TfL-run Green Lanes.
How many election cycles will it take us to realise that effort and time spent campaigning for an impossible LTN or practically impossible traffic restrictions to Wightman Road, would be better spent directly threatening these people's seats? All of the Harringay councillors, and particularly Mr Hakata and other nearby cabinet members' seats. Campaign against them in their own wards. Something tells me Mr Hakata much prefers his current council salary and perks to those of his previous job of mini-cab dispatcher.
When is the Harringay ward going to play politics properly?
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