Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Progress! Council signals intention for better cycle and bus infrastructure on Green Lanes - well overdue
Fantastic to read the council's intention for better cycle and bus infrastructure on Green Lanes.
Well overdue for residents regardless if you walk, cycle, bus or go in your car - it really is a horribly congested and dangerous road. This can only benefit residents regardless of how you get around.
I'm sure the battle to even get this far has been tough so it would be great if we could support our councillors in continuing to push this over the line.
Residents power!
https://haringey.gov.uk/streets-roads-travel/haringey-streets-peopl...
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Permalink Reply by Jamie Harper
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I suspect this post will age like an open bottle of milk on the top deck of a northbound 141.
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Reading between the lines I suspect the Green Lanes cycle lanes will be sharing the bus lanes.
The interesting thing will be whether they remove the parking and extend the bus lanes, I think technically Green Lanes is a little too narrow for two traffic lanes and two bus lanes.
I guess there's the possibility of a dedicated dual direction cycle lane but that's difficult with the bus stops.
Maybe we'll eventually see the Green Lanes/Wordsworth Parade junction sorted though, that's been on the cards for years and years.
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I'm glad something is happening. Lets see what the proposal is.
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While improvement is massively overdue, yet again the proposal appears to prioritise cycling but says almost nothing about buses apart from (unspecified) “changes to bus lanes”. Even TfL acknowledge that bus speeds are worse now than ever before; they attribute this primarily to a combination of roadworks and the massive reduction in road space caused by cycle lanes, which have ballooned in area covered across London from 90km to 460km over the last ten years.
Narrowing main roads with cycle lanes, alongside closing side streets for LTNs that force more traffic onto them, creates a vicious circle of slower, delayed and unreliable public transport that discourages journeys, holds up commercial and service vehicles, increases congestion and ultimately results in yet more truncations and cuts to bus routes as passengers resort to cars instead. Reducing car usage is an admirable goal, but it requires an integrated plan that provides viable public transport alternatives first, and remembers that Lime and Santander-sponsored bikes are not the answer for the majority of people in London. Reduced parking on Green Lanes, better bus lanes and bus priority at junctions would be a much more positive move towards sorting the borough’s traffic problems than a cycle lane on St Ann’s Road.
Let’s see what “changes” to bus lanes means in practice.
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