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 John McMullan on
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I used to leave the house every day to a traffic jam belching fumes into my house. There were two ways to solve this and sadly only one of them was under my control. You're lucky if you didn't have that problem. You must live south of Hewitt Rd and are shielded by the gated gardens on the other side of Green Lanes.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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I too spend only a few minutes each day walking along my road. However, I spend considerably longer living on it.
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Permalink Reply by Antoinette on
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You actually have to be pretty close to pollution to be affected by it though... once you are inside your own home, the pollution levels are neglible
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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That comment surprises me, Antoinette. Do you have some links to data which support your view? I'm especially thinking about the impact on children and older people when pollution levels are higher.
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No but I did have the pollutants measured in my own home by a friend who works at Kings College and happened to have a meter with them when they popped by for a coffee (I was just curious). The levels in my home were a 12th of the reading roadside, and that was before the Wightman Road closure.
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Permalink Reply by JoeW on
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"The levels in my home were a 12th of the reading roadside"
Does that mean spending 12 hours in your house is equivalent to spending 1 hour by the roadside? (I'm not sure if it's better to be exposed to a constant low level of pollution than a short period at a high level?)
Also I wonder if it follows that, since Wightman Road is twelve times busier than the average Ladder rung, that levels of pollution inside Wightman houses are the same as the level of pollution by the roadside on an average rung?
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No 12 hours of low level pollution is not as bad for you as an hour sitting roadside. It's much like passive smoking; sitting next to someone smoking is far more dangerous than spending 12 times as long sitting in the room next door to someone smoking. And again you're failing to recognise that moving traffic creates less pollution than stationary traffic. My figure was an actual reading from a monitor. Your extrapolation is just guesswork and ill-thought through in my opinion.
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Dunno Anoinette. My front door is about 12 feet away from the kerbside and when I opened my front windows (pre-bridge closure) the inside cills got covered in fine black dust. If particulates can get in so can invisible stuff.
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Permalink Reply by Peter Chalk on
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My net curtains blacken and need frequent washing when our front windows are open which we try to avoid. I live on Fairfax near Green Lanes end which is very very busy every day when Wightman is open especially since Hewitt no right turn was introduced. Children in school playgrounds are exposed on both sides.
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You needn't worry too much Natasha. Wightman Road will re-open in September. Haringey Council have confirmed as much. They have no plans to extend the current closure past 1st September. Any plans past that will need to do the full round of consultations and at this stage there aren't even plans on the table considering the permanent closure of Wightman Road.
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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That's correct. Conversations like this relate to the traffic survey currently being undertaken and what might be done in the area to reduce traffic in the future. The Wightman Rd closure is a separate thing happening thanks to the bridge works. The latter simply happens to show in real time a somewhat radical option for dealing with traffic. Liked by many but not by all
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I have the opposite problem - I walk my son to school but holiday club involves getting in the car...I'm dreading it
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