Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

The big red bus of Green Lanes

Can anyone tell me why this big red van can be constantly parked on Green Lanes without incurring parking fines, clamps or towing fees?

It's a huge problem for the 29 and 141. Back, side.

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Permalink Reply by linka on July 22, 2011 at 13:45

And here's the sign in front of which the car normally parks. Unless I'm mistaken, this specifies a regular 8.30-6.30 restriction?

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on July 22, 2011 at 15:42

Linka, In case you hadn't already done this, I've passed this information to the Environment Department. (It has some pretentious new name I forget.) I gave a link to your photo of the car in the cycle lane. (Posting on HoL by itself doesn't get it into the Council's systems.)

The Hackney Controlled Zone photo doesn't apply. The "border" at this point is the New River which runs under the roadway. On Google Earth the location of the car parked in the cycle lane is on the Haringey side.

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Permalink Reply by linka on July 22, 2011 at 15:46

Aha, thanks for the clarification, Alan. I hadn't reported it direct yet as I was waving the pictures around in the hope that we could accumulate more of an open-and-shut case (pictures showing the duration of the parking, for eg), but thanks for taking it direct to the right department.

I also didn't realise the border with Hackney was right there!

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Permalink Reply by michaelw on July 23, 2011 at 20:16

Here's this car again this afternoon, this time with the Haringey parking sign (and another car in front of it). Taken at 3.20 pm Saturday 23rd July.

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Permalink Reply by linka on July 24, 2011 at 22:28

I saw this car in front (which is a newer BMW) parked there on Friday evening in exactly the same spot around 8pm. The one behind it on Friday evening was a newer Mercedes - ie. not the one there earlier in the day - but it came back? In any case, I suspect both of these were parked here through Friday evening into Saturday.

Maybe it's an unofficial but exclusive parking space for owners of silver, German-made saloons only?

Well if it's going to take us turning into Emil and the Detectives to not have that sinking feeling at the junction when you look up the hill and see the bike lane parked up (and realise you'll have to signal out in the hope that some of the weekday traffic lay off their accelerators) so be it.

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Permalink Reply by empyrean_aisles on September 9, 2011 at 15:10

A few days ago I was cycling up Green Lanes and saw one of these cars in the bike lane ... and a parking inspector there giving it a ticket on his electronic machine! I got off my bike and chatted to him, mentioning that there were frequently cars parked there. He laughed and said, "I know, I see them on my way to work." So, at least one ticket-dispensing parking inspector knows about this!

Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on July 22, 2011 at 16:02

Sorry, I messed-up the Google Streetview link. This should work.