Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Consultation Documents Issued for Harringay's High Street
Further to my post last week, Haringey Council have today started a consultation for the Trader and GLA led project to spruce up Harringay's stretch of Green Lanes.
A copy of a six-page fold out document detailing the options for consultation is being posted through the letter boxes of Harringay residents today.
If you're a home and you've seen it, what do you think? Do you like the lights on top of the Salisbury?
Link: Online Consultation
Tags for Forum Posts: harringay regeneration 2012-13, high street parking, high streets, outer london fund
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Permalink Reply by hob on
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Love the lights on The Salisbury. I am not happy with the so called "Cantenary (suspended) feature lighting* at Burgoyne Road and Duckett Road junctions. It cheapens the feel of the area to my senses.
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Got ours today.
Like the proposal for improving the railway bridge.
Am not as keen on narrowing Burgoyne Road and not having two lanes for both directions. Will create more gridlock. Ditto the removal of the bus lane. I think Green Lanes is just so much better with it. I remember before the bus lane, buses would come in great clumps, people would be irritated at the obvious delays, it was a nightmare.
Also don't like suggested art thingy outside the Salisbury. Looks really ugly and will just be a glorified dog weeing post.
Otherwise like the rest!!
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Permalink Reply by Abi on
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They want to remove bus lanes??? That really is madness. I take the short journey from the Arena Park to Manor House pretty regularly as I don't drive and need to get shopping home up that hill - and the journey is always significantly longer than it needs to be due to traffic. Taking out bus lanes would make it impossible...
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Would rather see something like these lamps outside The Salisbury rather than a "Totem."
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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There are some good ideas here and for the little money they have they have had to spread things across the 'high st'.
Also don't like the Salisbury totem pole or the granite seat. Better off with a decent planter full of lavender & other hardy plants (if they don't nicked!). Hope the patrons of the Salisbury get to use the outside seating at night. Good to see that area getting a re-design.
Burgoyne redesign is largely to benefit the biennial Food Festival but would be good I guess for Old Ale Emporium.
Don't really get the need for the Allison Rd bit. But raised tables at the end of every ladder road would be good, except they don't seem to have a budget for this.
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Permalink Reply by Col on
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I'm all for this, from what they have put in the info it looks like it will be (relatively) small changes that could make a big difference...
I do agree with one of the posts above re traffic, which seems to be the main blight on Green Lanes... I was thinking about this the other day and wondered if they have ever considered making it one way...? It would seem one of the main problems is cars trying to get onto / off green lanes, particularly turning Right onto Green lanes (or turning right off it... So - a solution
Create two one way systems - Green Lanes as one and Wightman Road as the other. Keep the two bus lanes flowing both ways, and make traffic come down green lanes from turnpike lane, have Wightman road going the other way, and it should make cars turning a simpler thing (possibly - although I've not fully thought this through) in theory, filtering into and out of the roads from Green Lanes and Whiteman should be much easier... Seeing as there are already one way systems in place another one wouldn't hurt...
Couple better traffic with the improvements and you'd have a vastly improved area!
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Unless you live on Wightman Rd.....
One way systems mean fast flowing traffic and I think TfL are getting away from them.
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Permalink Reply by Alison P on
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I've just been looking at the document. I'm really positive about lots of it - eg. the bridge and the area leading up to it, the plans for St Ann's Rd, trees, two way cycling, looking at locations of crossings and bus stops (PLEASE move the northbound bus stop next to the betting shop and cashpoint just before St Ann's Rd - bit of a congestion/dodgy dealings trap).
Bits I'm not sure about are losing the bus lane - just can't see who this benefits. I'd love to see a diagonal crossing (or at least attention to the current lights' phasing) at the Salisbury junction. I'm not sure about the narrowed exits from various roads - I like the idea but do worry about their impact on traffic, esp leaving Burgoyne. Don't really understand the logic for doing this on Allison though.
Love the Salisbury lights!
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Losing the bus lane has always been in the plan. This is a great shame as it's also really good for cyclists.
I'm all for the traders driving this forward but I'm really not happy about the bus lane going for parking spaces and I presume this comes from them. Any notion about the pavement parking being shared with pedestrians is baloney, whoever heard of a pedestrian sharing space with a parked car? I'm sure there is plenty of space at the bottom of ladder roads for shared parking with residents. The streets really only fill up when the CPZ restrictions end.
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