Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Grit Bins on the Harringay Ladder
It won't come as any surprise that there aren't any grit bins on the Harringay Ladder! Following the snow we had in January and all the problems it caused the council are going to provide grit bins. I intend to keep the pressure on the council to do this quickly and it would be helpful to have residents feedback about where these bins should be located.
Cllr Karen Alexander
Tags for Forum Posts: Wightman Road, grit, grit bins
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Falkland Rd is flat, it does not need a grit bin.
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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John, I'm not looking for your opinion. It's not to do with incline, it's the fact that we have 450 children needing safe access/egress. The council is meant to provide this gritting service to schools at entrances when icy but failed to do so last time. And there should be 9 provided for the ladder area, one every second road, if the council is going to do this pre-election promise properly.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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I guess if there are to be two, might Alllison and Duckett be sensible places as being central to the two parts of the Ladder with steeper inclines?
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Permalink Reply by Steve Hatch on
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At the risk of perhaps stating the obvious... Near the Harringay Passage (on the chosen roads), where they would be accessible to both ends of the road, and other roads via the passage.
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Well it's not actually that obvious. If you were truly a lazy person like me then you would realise that dragging grit uphill is more work than slinging it downhill. I would say at the highest point on the highest roads if you're really going to be using this grit for traffic.
Of course if you put it near the passage then pedestrians will just use it to make their journeys along the passage less treacherous and I don't think this is what the council want at all.
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Permalink Reply by Stuart on
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John - you say "using this grit for traffic". Isn't the whole point of the gritting bins that they are for residents to use for the pavement and paths? Gritting for traffic is a job for and best done by the council gritters. I think Steve's idea is the right one (with extra ones outside the schools).
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Permalink Reply by Iona on
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Putting only 2 bins down for the whole of the ladder? Thats not going to last long especially as the first sign of snow/ice - overnight the majority will disappear....Having had experience of this elsewhere people seem to nick it and keep bins full of it in their house for some reason......leaving the poor folks that really need it with nothing except their Saxa salt packet...
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@Bushy I would have thought that you might infer from my previous posting about being a traffic hating, passage loving dude that I was being facetious.
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Very good description there PLD ;-)
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Permalink Reply by Birdy_Too on
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Am I dreaming or didn't there use to be a grit bin somewhere on the Ladder?
Outside the two schools and on the steepest inclines near the passage would get my vote, this shouldn't be for roads (as the bins are not big enough) but pavements and walkways.
Whose to say that these bins wouldn't be used as trash bins or toilets etc? Isn't there away we could keep them secure?
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Permalink Reply by Joe Bailey on
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There was a grit bin at the Wightman Road end of Allison Road years ago, I believe. Could we have one there once again?
It is quite steep, cars get stuck on both Wightman Road and Allison Road, and it is dangerous to walk on the steep incline too. There are also a number of elderly residents at this end of the road, so this would be a great location.
Indeed there is a stretch before number 1 Allison Road, where there are no houses, so it would not cause obstruction or annoyance to anyone who didn't want one outside their own house.
If placed near the corner, it would also be easily accessible from a main priority road (which should always be gritted), so refills would be easy to perform - which I understand is part of the criteria when selecting a location for any new grit bin.
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