Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Time to abolish Haringey's 'nightlife tax'?
With the Standard glorying in the 9 month setback to Westminster's plans to introduce a 'nightlife tax' in the West End, it's an appropriate time to be asking what effect the till 10 PM parking controls have on night life in Wood Green.
Harringay's one time till 10pm restrictions were reduced to 6.30 with no apparent ill effect.
Could life be improved for Wood Green if the controls there were relaxed?
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Permalink Reply by frank h on
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I wish they would relax the controls - Wood Green is impossible to go out in after 6.30 (unlike other boroughs) because of the punitive parking controls - so I end up driving to Camden or Islington. I'm partially disabled so I can't catch the bus all the time. Thus my business ends up going out of the borough. Also Wood green is less safe because people can't socialise there and that sad because muggings in Haringey are rising faster than elsewhere.....up 61%....best in London :(
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-24020341-burglary-an...
And I don't know who writes the signs but can we sack them? What a waste of council tax. I spend about 10 mins trying to work out whether i can park or not everytime I go to Turnpike Lane. I pity the poor traders there....customers are terrified to drive there because of the incomprehensible parking signs.....so again Haringey businesses lose out. Don't get me started on what they did to my street! We next to a new CPZ - that means I have to park 300 metres from my house sometimes, and if I'm having a bad day that's a long walk......arrggghhh
..... And relax!
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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I would like parking restrictions to go back to a later finish on the Ladder. Many of my neighbours are not contributing to the borough's "transport" costs because they manage to leave for work in their cars before 8am and return after 6:30pm. This also makes it tricky returning home late at night on a Sunday, sometimes having to park in the next street with a car load of baggage and sleeping children. I find this incredible considering some of the photographs I have taken of my street after the school run has finished, it can be less than half full.
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Permalink Reply by Malcolm on
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Aww poor you John. The problem is too many residents wanting to park too many cars - which isn't addressed by a 10pm cutoff any more than it would be by a 6:30 one.
The 6:30 one stops non-residents parking and catching the tube into town, something that I'm sure you welcome living so near the tube.
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The problem is that many of us can get around the contribution we should pay to the borough's transport/pollution budget by working an eight and a half hour day with a one hour each way commute.
Oh come now, a 1-2pm CPZ would stop people parking in my street and catching the tube into town. This is to stop shoppers, not commuters.
BTW, if you are one of the people in the Wood Green Outer zone that drives to Turnpike Lane Station and parks in Willoughby Rd, I think you're lazy.
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