... 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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Oakfield? Warwick Gardens? Please don't keep us in suspense andy h!
Wolves Lane is interesting and definitely has some geographical similarities, thanks Andy. I can see they have eliminated southbound ratrunning at least from the North Circ itself, and made northbound ratrunning a bit harder. Perhaps we will end up with something similar on Wightman - it's fairly easy to eliminate ratrunning in two or three directions (say, north-, east- and west-bound), though need to be careful the remaining direction doesn't then become a racetrack.
I think Wolves Lane is a bit wider than Wightman? And many of the houses have driveway/front garden parking, so many stretches there is no need to park on the road on both sides at least. I can't envisage a good way to remove pavement parking on Wightman without making it one-way.
I agree that Wolves Lane is an interesting comparison, but doesn't it depend on roads blocked south of White Hart Lane as well as the one way off the North Circular?
More interesting is Woodlands Park Road and Black Boy Lane - why aren't they popular rat runs from the A10 coming south? I think the reason is the Gardens scheme and Hermitage Road closure.
This is what Wightman needs, a resident controlled barrier at, say, the bridge and at Hampden Road. Simple and neat.
And with such little traffic on Wightman, parking both sides with passing points would easily work; and cycling would be a pleasure - as it is in the Gardens.
If Woodlands Park Road (~25k vehicles per week) and Black Boy lane (~70k vehicles) are not considered rat runs, then the average ladder road (~9k per week) must be an oasis of calm!
I wonder why Black Boy Lane was chosen as the bus route? It's pretty narrow - also has pavement parking at the top. Perhaps it would be better one-way (the bus could use Avenue Road or Cornwall Road on the reverse leg).
Woodlands Park is also a ratrun, I see it had a couple of calming suggestions added on the interactive map.
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