Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Why is Crouch End high street so much cleaner than Green Lanes?
I recently noted that people queue for buses in Crouch End but not Green Lanes and wondered why.
On my most recent excursion I noticed how markedly cleaner Crouch End is on a Saturday morning compared to Green Lanes and again wondered why?
Both are very busy on a Saturday morning (Crouch End arguably more so). Both have lots of cafes and restaurants. Both have bus stops.
But Green Lanes is littered with rubbish.
Why is it so?
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Permalink Reply by adamvietnam
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Further to that Fix My Street seems to work very well and the council generally respond quickly to reports of rubbish.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson
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I have a friend who lives in Muswell Hill and we discussed this some time ago. It’s not that Muswell Hill (and I assume also Crouch End) has less littering but more reporting. In MH people have organised telephone trees so a single incident has multiple reports. I assume this moves it higher up the priority list. A big difference though between Crouch End, Muswell Hill and Green Lanes are the number of fruit and veg stops that spill on to the pavement, though I would have thought that this would prompt a more frequent street cleaning regime.
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Permalink Reply by Mark Williams
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The drive-through McDonald's doesn't help. Most of the branded litter in the area must be from that one location. I'm sure there are several social and economic factors as well.
I recently had to explain to overseas visitors that this is normal for the area to be this dirty, and that people are instructed to leave loose bin bags on the pavement. They had assumed there was some sort of problem, like a bin strike or something. They thought I was joking when I said the local government asks people to put their rubbish out on the street in bags.
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