Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Oxford Street to be pedestrianised by 2020 ... so Wightman Rd ...
... can surely be closed to through traffic in the future, as it currently is during the bridge works. If the planners can deal with the re-routing of all those buses and taxi journeys away from Oxford Street for the pedestrianisation plans, it must be possible to do this for Wightman Road as well.
Living Wightman would do well to have a chat with the new Mayor's office.
Tags for Forum Posts: traffic, wightman bridge closure
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Permalink Reply by Antoinette on
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The current closure of Wightman Road cannot be extended....I do wish people would stop talking about that as an actual possibility
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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Charlotte, good question. Don't know as not running the survey but as John says, they need volunteers.
John, folk have been putting forward their thoughts for solutions on here re traffic build up elsewhere. I would have thought the traffic consultants will put forward options once they have all their data in etc. Lets not think we can solve things by ourselves.
Antoinette, I didn't phrase the survey questions. I do think the next councillor voted in will have expressed a strong interest in traffic reduction on 'the ladder' though. Lets see what happens. Lots of interest in reducing traffic. That much is clear.
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Whoever did write the survey is not doing any favours by misleading people that this is a possibility when it isn't....
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Not really. The campaigners will be looking to get the council to change their current plans for a reopen in September and extend the closure until the traffic consultation report is complete. The odds of them achieving that maybe slim but they are allowed to try and you're entitled to disagree.
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But the Council aren't allowed by law to extend a Traffic Management Order, they would need a new TMO and that takes time.... time which doesn't exist... it's not just about whether the Council can be convinced to keep Wightman Road closed, they can't legally do so
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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"cannot be extended" - I never imagined it would ever happen in the first place.
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It took 3 years of planning and multiple consultations
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I believe you but I bet they didn't start out thinking "we'll have to close the whole of Wightman Rd". I think they realised that quote late in the piece.
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No. They clearly started at the point of "this bridge is going to fall down, we need to replace it".... only afterwards did they consider closing Wightman Road as a way of managing the knock-on effects.
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Well said.
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When are they doing a door to door survey of the people living on Green Lanes, I wonder? We may have a thing or two to contribute to that discussion! Or are Wightman road residents some kind of special snowflakes whose opinion is much more important than others? If so please explain why...
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We're now missing a few of the barriers. Last night cycling home I came upon the "character" with the white panel van opposite Fairland Park. He had a streaming cut to his left eye that he allegedly received from a Royal Mail motorcyclist. This morning I took a photo of a white van pushing the barriers aside between Pemberton and Mattison (I think). After trying to reverse into me as I took a photo of the back of his van he decided to pursue me, at high speed and on the wrong side of Wightman Rd then the wrong way down Cavendish Rd before I made it to the passage. All of this at a frighteningly high speed.
I did wonder when the road was closed off how long it would take before it came to road rage and violence, I guess it just took some warmer weather.
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