grocery shopping with Ocado, and I've saved a lot of money doing it this way - no more impulse purchases in Sainsburys or popping into Next, and no hassle from the children about requests for McDonalds.
The only place I use on Green Lanes is the post office twice a year when I ebay some children's clothes and Tescos very rarely when I've run out of milk. It's a shame living so close to shops that don't offer the types of things I buy and I order online or drive somewhere else.…
public) for 6 months, I would expect that the initial planning started much earlier.
So, what are the alternatives to parking (for retailers)? Are additional pay&display bays going to be extended in the ladder and garden streets?
How is traffic going to be alleviated? are we opening the street at the back of sainsbury's as an additional escape from Arena shopping centre?
Are speed bumps, limits and vehicle restrictions going to be removed off wightman road?
Are we opening the back of the garden roads into St. Anns Road?
You may be happy to make this trade off, but traffic through Green Lanes is a shambles in the best times. Any bit of disruption throws it into bitter chaos. Any saturday morning it takes less to walk from Allison road to Harringay green lanes than go on a car or bus.
I love that improvements are done to the neighbourhood. I just hate that nobody seems to care about the things that will have a negative impact.…
r you to have a balanced point of view that has into account all road users.
I have lived in Harringay the past 8 or 9 years. I have commuted by tube, bus, car and motorcycle over this time.
I can tell you that green lanes is so miserable that if I need to drive from Sainsbury's to Falkland road, I would rather go up umfreville road (with all the speed bumps), wightman road all the way to fairfax, then down fairfax, up one and back into falkland all the way to home. That's how scared I am of driving on green lanes (because the risk of running someone over who does not look while crossing is just too great)
Your proposal is to block traffic. Where are your plans for the traffic? would you expect the cars to just vanish? it's the same reasoning as the hewitt road no-right-turn. Imagine that the rest of boroughs did the same.
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field and then drive up my road on the way home.
I thought the Hornsey branch might take away some of this traffic, but it just isn't as comprehensive a store - although I agree ours has gone downhill. I think that has more to do with the attempted merger with Asda which seemed to take it a bit downmarket - that and competition from 'discount' places like Lidl.
There have already been some pretty big staff cuts, and more to come, and I understand workers had to sign new contracts with worse conditions. So overall it's not the store it used to be.
I don't think anyone locally will be served by it turning into a distribution centre for home deliveries, and we certainly don't need more big lorries and delivery vans on Green Lanes. Perhaps we should rethink our desire to receive everything personally at home within a few hours of ordering it, as it certainly isn't cutting traffic.…
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Now a lot of people are talking about their indiviudal journeys, it being cheaper to use a car and 'what about me and my journey'. well in my mind that's just fairly selfish. Yes public transport should be cheaper, and connections should be improved. it would be fantastic if people used the energy that have fighting against limiting motor movements to campaign for improved services and cheaper fares rather than the right to continue to drive a car, daily, and for short journeys, through residential streets where pollution levels are high and often in breach of EU regulations, obesity levels are exacerbated by the lack of active travel and the unwelcoming conditions, and everyone sits frustrated in traffic anyway. you are not stuck in traffic, you are traffic. Nobody is suggesting that cars should be banned, just that it shouldn't be the norm to drive them for journeys that could easily be cycled or walked. Even in the US they have initatives that encourage people to drive less or more environmentally- for example 'fast lanes' for cars with 3/4 passengers (along with pick up points for people without cars). Neil, you talk about getting doctors and nurses to work in the easiest fashion- there are cycle paramedics becuase people on bikes are often the first to get to an emergency. this is not becuase roads are blocked to through traffic by bollards but because they are stuck in traffic- probably behind hundreds of people with only one person in the car driving to sainsbury's to get some shopping. doctors and nurses know first hand what a cost obesity and inactivity is to the NHS so they should be supporting measures that encourage more healthy lifestyles. And the fact is that most journey times under 8 miles in London are much quicker by bike than car so in fact, we could even be doing people a favour. Neil you talk about having a nice car but i feel like you've never had the joy of the wind in your hair and riding a bike- I'll happily give you a backy or lend you some wheels. You never know, you might like it …
ides that inconvenience he said that he was missing the trade of some customers who were in the habit of driving up Green Lanes and pausing to drop off their laundry. He then raised what to me was a new concern. He said that when Wightman Road was reopened, the railway bridge over Green Lanes outside Sainsburys would be worked on and that this would entail closing Green Lanes itself and that much of the load would be re-routed via Wightman Road. He was dreading the impact of this on his business but I have other concerns.
Can anyone shed light on this story? Is anything more than a brief maintenence/paint job required on the Green Lanes railway bridge?…
the ladder and have moved into the front bedroom in the house this past week because of works in my normal room. (I didn't take the front bedroom originally because it's on the road.) I have to say it's astounding how many times during the night I am pummeled out of bed by the noise and vibrations.
Really? People are happy to have this pass trough traffic foisted by those who don't give a damn about how their blithe actions affect your lives day in/ day out--happy to let this carry on so they themselves can drive to Sainsburys at the Arena once a week? …
bury's that weekend! (It'll be interesting to see if the renewed traffic and parking problems I fear will materialise or whether everything has in fact been perfectly calibrated).…
have never made a push for filtering Ladder roads themselves. These contribute nothing to overall road capacity - on the contrary, the opportunity to run up & down them at the direction of Google probably increases overall traffic, as probably does turning into & out of Green Lanes & Wightman. There would be some loss of parking for the creation of turn-around spaces, but the experience of roads that get such filters is, once they're in, residents don't want to lose them. If you think there's no space to turn around (do these roads become chaotic hell-holes whenever some road works prevent through traffic? I don' think so), try it on one or two roads (perhaps adjacent to one of the schools) as proof of concept.
2. If the objective is instead to filter Wightman, it cannot be emphasized too much that this must go together with something to ensure better bus times on Green Lanes. That has to mean getting rid of a lot of parking on Green Lanes, and scheduling any kerbside loading on GL for off-hours. It would require a concerted campaign that is about more than Wightman.
3. In the longer term (but not so many years from now), redevelopment of the Sainsbury's site should be done with zero customer or employee parking, and with any resident parking unbundled (physically & financially) from the flats themselves. The Council must face the fact that retail car parks are part of a business model that generates road traffic - every breath you take subsidises that business model. Residential density here is high enough to support retail without car parking.
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ely people working there are muslim, so would probably not have the great wine knowledge the Threshers staff had. It's hard to know what's good alcohol when you don't drink it yourself, I think. And the 3 for 2 offers were great. But the Lion King do have some good stuff, the staff are lovely, and I am sure they'll order stock on request. Worth a try!
Now I have to go to Sainsburys, and with the current traffic it'll take hours! But that's a
completely different discussion...
Could we request an Oddbins or something? If we aske nicely? I'd hate it if that shop now becomes another pound shop, kebab place or - EEK - a betting shop! Let's keep an eye out for any notices going up, folks.…