Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Traffic vs Harringay Paving?
Hugh's post about the unfortunate HGV driver reminded me of two vehicles I saw riding over a ready-mangled kerb at the junction outside Arista Foods.
I was behind a van at these lights waiting to turn left onto Green Lanes last Friday and although it was a very short van the driver clipped the kerb by around a foot, riding over the already broken kerb which was sticking up in the air.
As I returned a few minutes later the road was blocked by police while they helped free this beached bus.
These two lanes in Salisbury Road are narrow and vehicles often hug the left hand side. If a little van does it, how many longer vehicles really stand a chance? Did we not have a bell-shaped thing there before? Mind your toes!
Up at the Salisbury junction, southbound drivers turning left onto St Anns Road are greeted immediately with a very unusual second set of lights, and we have to hope they are expecting this and are looking ten feet in the air and to their left to avoid banging into oncoming traffic.
I'm sure the info is here for me about the improvement works and the end results, but have both these risks been properly assessed?
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Permalink Reply by Mike C on
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Thanks hugh, memory serves me poorly then! It seems they have 'sharpened' the kerb making it harder for longer vehicles, but with no railings why wouldn't someone stand there? I'll post a pic later of the other junction, which has had an extra set of lights put up, still on the left but more visible and hopefully safer.
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Since I posted this I went back to the Salisbury lights, and a second light post has been installed over by the cab office. Good to see this junction work progressing again as it all seemed to stop. Still on the left, but much more visible. I think as you round the corner the best place would be by those trees/behind the no entry sign where the workmen are standing. (I am not a town planner...)
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