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.

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Permalink Reply by Charlotte A on July 27, 2016 at 12:03

What VW (and allegedly all other car manufacturers) did is the fault of neither the cars nor the drivers though.

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Permalink Reply by matthew cuthbert on July 27, 2016 at 19:42

Which UK government encouraged us to buy diesel?

Part of the problem I thought, is each manufacturer does their own testing, temptation to bend the rules is too great. Masking tape and removing wing mirrors is one thing but rigging software is another.

Permalink Reply by Antoinette on July 27, 2016 at 12:09

No more immoral than riding a cycle over a pedestrian footbridge.

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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on July 27, 2016 at 14:12

I disagree. Pollution kills.

Permalink Reply by matthew cuthbert on July 27, 2016 at 20:07

This is comparing an individual's action to corporate lying, the FDA might see it differently.

Permalink Reply by Antoinette on July 27, 2016 at 11:59

None on the ladder do.

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Permalink Reply by JulieB on July 27, 2016 at 12:12

Our school, Chestnuts, doesn't have a car park but the teachers are allowed to buy permits for my CPZ. Most of them who I see parking here car share. The others either live close enough and and walk or cycle to school or they get public transport. I can't think of any local primary schools that have car parks, but I could be wrong.

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Permalink Reply by Antoinette on July 27, 2016 at 12:08

I didn't realise there was a car park but from what I can see on Google maps it may have 50 spaces, a proportion of which will be disabled spaces. Not really huge in the grand scheme and I'm not aware of any other Council buildings that have any car parking facilities. So again we are talking about 50 car spaces for a workforce of a few thousand.

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Permalink Reply by matthew cuthbert on July 27, 2016 at 19:26

Up to 50 behind the high rise bronze building at Wood Green

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Permalink Reply by Charlotte A on July 27, 2016 at 8:50

You'll probably find that a lot of people don't want to work in the borough in which they live, especially customer- facing people like housing officers, social workers, teachers etc. They don't want to have the opportunity of bumping into their clients when they're not at work. I think a lot of people commute in to Haringey from outer boroughs, just like people in Haringey commute further into London.