... 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.
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As far as I can make out, reading the threads over the years, most would like to go back to the situation in 1903, when peace was disturbed only by the odd horse-drawn milk float and children played with hoops in the middle of the road
An acceptable traffic level for me would need to meet at least the following:
- Meet EU pollution levels
- Increases safety such that it encourages more cycle journeys
- Allows for the pavements to be returned to pedestrians, and generally reduce noise, fumes, and road safety issues so that it encourages more walking journeys, and people to spend more time at the front of their houses rather than locked inside or at the back, which promotes a sense of community.
These are all measurable effects of the current layout (although there is still pavement parking), but other layouts could probably achieve the same.
I'm sure these are all Council, and GLA objectives too.
Antoinette, JulieB, Natasha H, Jessica you're already off to a flying start with the crowdfunding - why wait until September when you could start now, for example just pick any frequently congested stretch of A-road (say, Tottenham High Road, Great Cambridge Road or even the North Circular itself), and start a campaign to remove the cul-de-sacs and one-way systems on the adjacent residential sidestreets which are surely the cause of the congestion?
Personally I think filtering Wightman is a model solution that could be applied all over London. Think globally, act locally, as they say.
The problem has only been displaced because when the filtering was introduced for the bridgeworks there were no compensating measures introduced elsewhere. They weren't even able to change the traffic light phases properly.
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