Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Wightman Road closed
We are enjoying the peace and quiet arising from the closure of Wightman Road between Pemberton and Mattison Roads. This is because of Thames Water have opened a trench right across the carriageway to improve some of their pipework. This picture reminds us how thin and unsupported the road surface is. A bit a of old brick rubble seems to be all there is on top of the squidgy London clay.
Just to make things more difficult, the power company was busy near Harringay station outside La Vina digging down to an 11,000 volt cable that had burned out and needed replacing. A temporary traffic light was controlling what little traffic was still using Wightman. This was the scene yesterday when I walked by:
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Permalink Reply by Rory on
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Well this utopia could be the norm if enough people support the proposed LTN and help Living Streets Harringay... https://www.livingstreets.org.uk/get-involved/local-groups/haringey
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Living Streets not inolved in this. The group you want is Harringay Ladder Healthy Streets. https://www.hlhs.org.uk
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Lucky you, Dick. Green Lanes is closed overnight tonight between Endymion Rd and Umfreville Rd to resurface the carriageway around the Williamson Rd (Sainsbury's) junction.
As an Umfreville resident taking all the diverted southbound traffic my bedroom windows previously open for ventilation have had to be closed on a hot night.....
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According to BT & Open Reach, Thames Water sliced our phone & broadband cable on Saturday morning leaving us without landline and internet until this morning.
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Permalink Reply by Dick Harris on
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When you see what's under the pavements, it's a wonder this doesn't happen more often. The green plastic ducts visible in the photo are for BT or cable operators and these are mostly near the surface. The 3 or 4 inch rusty metal pipes are probably water mains serving both premises and the fire hydrant that's under the square steel cover. The 8 or 9 inch rusty steel pipe might be an abandoned low pressure gas main (which might have a new yellow plastic pipe inside it). I don't know what the other two pipes are. I think the burned out section of power cable had already been removed. This is the spot where an ancient fire station telegraph used to stand so maybe there are other abandoned bits and pieces. Needless to say, there is no single authoritative map of all this stuff so when technicians are sent out to fix faults, they need to tread carefully and hope that their modern detectors tell them the right story before they start digging. Slicing a BT cable wouldn't be actually dangerous, but not all these services are so harmless.
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Permalink Reply by Elaine W on
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I can’t say I’m enjoying the sensation of my flat shaking every time a lorry is diverted down Pemberton, which is currently every few minutes. It seems like drivers are not expecting the speed humps as there is no attempt to slow down and the racket made by trailers as they catapult over the humps is alarming.
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As a fellow sufferer, you have my every sympathy. You can be sure that any lorry that is diverted down Pemberton will have first passed my house on Wightman. Afterwards, it might have gone up Umphreville and upset Gordon. It's this through traffic we need to get stopped.
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