Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Haringey secures £5.8m for Liveable Neighbourhoods scheme!
It's great to see these Haringey Council plans to tackle rat-running and car-dominance and promoting walking and cycling! Modal filtering! Segregated cycle lanes! A new town square! https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2017/november/boro...
"Under the proposals, pedestrian and cycling conditions in Crouch End town centre will be improved to help encourage more active travel in the area, tackling congestion and improving air quality and residents' well-being. The proposals, which residents will be consulted on, look to create a new square incorporating the clock tower, currently surrounded by traffic on all sides. Segregated cycle routes will feed the town centre, pedestrian crossings will be improved and traffic will be reduced on residential streets with new modal filters"
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Permalink Reply by Andrew Stillman on
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is this an attempt to buy some goodwill from crouchenders in the face of what the council are doing to the town hall (including the sale of the existing town square) , or does the council just want to tackle the neighborhoods with the really gnarly problems first?
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Excellent news. No doubt we will see this thoughtful approach rolled out to other parts of the borough that need it.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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As I've said before, they want to join the Enfield cycling infrastructure up to Islington. There are some hills in Haringey that are just not great for most cyclists or people who are not yet cyclists. The money spent in Crouch End will be wasted, because of the hills.
Perhaps they're banking on electric bicycles?
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Permalink Reply by Mr Wodjacallim on
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It is already joined up but could be joined more directly.
You can cycle down the Lea Navigation from Enfield to Tottenham then to Lime House basin. Turn right there and you get to Islington, Camden, Paddington and much further...all the way up the Grand Union to Birmingham.
It is a bit of a round about route though. Shame the New River does not have a tow path ... which is what makes it possible.
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I do know people who cycle to work in the most circuitous of routes similar to this one that you have described. They are doing it for odd reasons like getting in 10,000 miles on Strava in the year or making sure they do Muswell HIll, Swain's Laine and Ferme Park Rd at least once a day. These are NOT the cyclists we need to encourage. Those cyclists do not exist at the moment. They want a SAFE route into work and would probably put up with inclement weather, the odd puncture, the initial outlay of a bicycle and some increased heart rate they may be unfamiliar with in return for not risking their lives just to get to work on time.
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Permalink Reply by JoeW on
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Difficult to imagine anyone reaching the end of the new Enfield path and then heading 4 miles east in order to pick up the Lea Navigation, whatever Strava challenge they may have set themselves?
Cyclists generally want direct routes same as other transport users.
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Permalink Reply by Adrian Hackney on
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. . . . .. or drag lifts, you know, the type that is just a rope going round two pulleys. What is being proposed for Crouch End is both a mystery and a surprise. We are promised a consultation on what is proposed, but possibly not until the works are complete the way things are going. We think the cycle route might be as shown in the image. The drag lift suggestion came from the CENF Christmas stall.
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All because they didn't want to filter Wightman Rd in case it offended motorists in Enfield and Crouch End.
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Someone must have a few more details, the local Crouch End councillors for example all helped secure it so they must have been shown some plans?
Regarding your map note that there is apparently a cycling Quietway - Q10 - being planned to wiggle through the Heartlands development before presumably emerging onto Hornsey High Street, all ready to climb up Tottenham Lane and approach Crouch End's new town square (screenshot from TfL comments on http://www.planningservices.haringey.gov.uk/portal/servlets/Applica...) ):
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In respect of the CE councillors, I think "helped secure it" should be read as "here's a lucky coincidence, let's grab some credit, just before we stand down". Which they have now done.
I think work on Q10 and the extension through Crouch End is quite well advanced. This picture shows what looks like the beginnings of a cycle lane by Bank Chambers. The presence of the almost invisible black bollard in the middle of it is a ????? revolutionary new safety feature / an indication that the cycle lane will be two way / a cyclist calming measure. I look forward to being consulted on the decisions to be taken in CE , almost as soon as they have been.
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You may be right, or perhaps the bollard is just to stop vehicles. The plans did include armadillos on Turnpike Lane westbound:
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