Those of you who've been around on the site for a while will remember when eagle-eyed Paul Jenkins spotted some grit in the ointment of the Wood Green Town Plan. He spotted that the Council were planning to close Wood Green High Road to all traffic but buses. This would have seen all traffic diverted down Wightman.
A
successful campaign orchestrated by this site saw that off..............or so we thought.
A recent article in the Hornsey & Crouch End Journal that I just spotted on the
HoL Newswire raises the possibility of the plan being back in play.
Fume clogged streets could be a thing of the past if cars are permanently banned in Wood Green under ambitious plans to create a "town centre of the future". The area is one of 12 earmarked by Transport for London to potentially benefit from a new network of bus and bike routes - by banning cars.
So, here we are again. How come? If it was dropped by the Council, has it really been revived without any input from them? What's going on here?
According to the Journal, the plans are at a very early stage, with a public consultation running until January. It will be finalised in April 2012. So, if we want to have some influence over how this'll impact our area (positively or negatively), we'd better have our say!
Can anyone see the relevant bit in
the plan?
PS:
This later discussion also has some comments about this issue, but has since been closed by site Admin.