successful in securing funding from the Arena Estate development to improve Green Lanes at its junction with Williamson Road and Endymion Road.
The associated highway works were completed last year and DTO are currently upgrading the traffic signals at the junction of Endymion Road. These works are anticipated to be completed by early December 2007.
The traffic controller, signal heads and posts at Williamson Road are due to be upgraded by DTO early in the New Year. The signals at Williamson Road will be linked with the Endymion Road signals which should improve efficiency, safety and increase capacity. As part of the upgrade we will also be extending the yellow box to the northbound direction. We will continue to monitor the junction after the outstanding works are completed and further measures will be considered if necessary.
Please note that both junctions are currently running on the old signal timings and we expect the capacity of both junctions to be improved when the new controllers are installed.
I hope this has answer your query and please do not hesitate to contact either myself or Demos Kettenis tel. 020 8489 1704 who’s group is responsible for the Highways works.…
000 sq ft Sainsbury's superstore and up to 230 new homes on the former Hornsey Depot site, off High Street, Hornsey, will worsen traffic congestion.
Local groups including Hornsey Information and Planning Exchange (HIPE), New River Village Residents' Association and MORRSH Neighbourhood Watch are expressing their concern.
Some local residents are wondering if the development is motivated by Sainsbury's desire to protect their Harringay store. The thinking being that Sainsbury's don't necessarily want to build on the site, but they don't want anyone else to have it because it will take business from Harringay.
Local traders appear to be lining up alongside the Council, in the belief that the development could boost business along Hornsey High Street by enticing more motorists to stop and shop.
The Council has committed to consulting residents and businesses before any formal planning application is submitted, and study the potential impact on traffic flow.
We should make sure that Harringay residents are included in the consultation given the potential impact on our area through traffic growth. To this end I have today written to our councillors to ensure our involvement.
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rewing for a few years, why have they expanded the shopping area and now Sainsburys without improving the local roading. This bottle neck has been at breaking point for a while and I think Sainsbury expanding the store has finally broken it. How did the council give planning permission for the expansion of Sainsbury and the local retail park, as Green Lanes has been at maximum capacity as soon as they put the traffic calming schemes in the side roads. I think the council need to show how they are going to invest to improve the roading to increase capacity not strangle it, I don't think traffic lights will do very much. I really feel for local residance as it is commerce before residence and something now has to be done.…
a petition to you opposing the proposed hours reduction. This was signed by a greater number of residents than the number indicating in your survey that they favoured the changes.
Authority for making the decision on the CPZ was devolved to you personally. In exercising that power, you chose to disregard the objections of the residents and decided to proceed with the proposed changes.
You will also remember that one of our objections was that there seemed likely to be a significant increase in traffic to the area as a result of the development of the Arena and the expansion of Sainsbury’s. The reality has in fact been worse than our darkest fears. I think I am not being dramatic in describing the current traffic situation in Harringay as chaotic. Both parking and traffic at the development are now major problems. However, the Arena has yet to reach full operating capacity. With a Fitness First opening soon, the level of traffic will increase further. I recognise that the Council is awaiting improvements to nearby traffic lights with a view to improving the traffic problems at Williamson Road. However, whilst this may diminish the problem, it will do nothing to reduce traffic volume and may even serve to increase it as people learn it is flowing more freely.
Once the new CPZ hours come into operation, particularly the removal of Sunday restrictions, and with ever-increasing traffic volume around the Arena development, it is highly probable that Arena customers, and perhaps even some Sainsbury’s customers will choose to use nearby residential streets for parking. There will also be a knock-on effect for Green Lanes premises patrons who might previously have used Arena/Sainsbury’s parking facilities. As you are aware increased parking in some streets leads inevitably to a knock-on effect for quite some distance. So it is likely that a high proportion of the neighbouring streets will be affected. This has happened in the past, in one instance as an effect of the phased introduction of CPZs.
Given the strong likelihood of further serious deterioration in the parking and traffic situation for Harringay residents and the existing strength of opposition to the CPZ changes (I recognise it’s not universal), please will you consider postponing the implementation of the new hours until further consideration is given to the situation in light of recent developments.
Yours sincerely,
Hugh etc…