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 Clive Carter
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(My apologies for the uncharacteristic pessimism).
Hugh, your post is more realistic than pessimistic.
With the best will in the world, councils cannot reduce the levels of car ownership and burning of fossil fuel by themselves. And Haringey does not always live up to the standard of the best—political—will in the world.
Help is needed from central Government.
Many measures could be adopted, with the biggest and most effective being to increase Fuel Duty. Perhaps the Chancellor will in the Budget put on a penny or two a litre on petrol and diesel and surprise those who are concerned about the burning of fossil fuel.
But, I'm not optimistic.
As far as Government climate and environment policy is concerned, there is a noticeable lack of the best will in the world from Starmer's Government,
Starmer has shelved most of Labour's goals and policies about the environment. Unless he is replaced, there is surely little chance of improvement.
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