Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Haringey Council traffic boss contact details.
Do let Stuart McNamara know your thoughts on the situation, the more people who get in contact the more pressure there will be to sort out this mess:
Correspondence address:
225 High Road
Wood Green
London
N22 8HQ
Bus. phone: 020 8489 2687 (office)
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Permalink Reply by sparkle on
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Harry- thanks- here's my letter:
Dear Cllr McNamara,
Please may I urge you to urgently consider opening the closed roads in Haringey Gardens and also in Crouch End - Rathcoole Gardens N8 from Weston
Park Roads and the closed streets between Middle Lane and Park Road where they prevent cars taking that through route?
A huge amount of traffic could queue in these roads, therefore easing traffic backing up on Hornsey High Street and around the St Anns area and Green Lanes.
For too long some areas have had traffic restricted to trunk roads via closures of residential cut throughs, while other areas have had to suffer with excess traffic from outside the borough using residential streets to ‘get through’. This is bad for residents but also for Traders. We don’t want cars blocking up Green Lanes and preventing people coming to use the shops etc. I understand a great deal of traffic uses Wightman road as a cut through but does not stop to buy at our local shops, visit restaurants or live in the area or adjacent.
Let’s look at spreading the load evenly throughout the borough so that while this unavoidable work is done this through traffic can be shared more fairly and local traders not so badly affected.
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Ann Cunnigham isn't able to talk right now as her phone isn't being answered, but I'll also try my other councillors.
I think its amazing they didn't consider making Harringay Road two way & opening up Kimberley Gardens and Warwick Gardens- traffic could queue there through the Gardens roads which would ease some of the burden and it would allow cars to get from West Green to St Anns Road without using Green Lanes.
Thanks so much for posting details and reminding me to get on with contacting people to suggest this.
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Permalink Reply by Jim Sheppard on
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I don't think that allowing through traffic to use the Gardens as rat runs rather than the Ladders is a particularly constructive way in which to proceed. Let's wait to see if journey re-planning improves the situation.
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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How has the closure impacted on you Harry? Do you run a business in the area (for example)?
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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I understand the desire to contact the bosses at times like this, but I'm uncertain about how productive it is to call them; far better to email.
All Council staff, elected or employed, are completely overwhelmed these days as reductions in public funding have cut things to the bone.
Stuart McNamara has a huge brief to manage - almost impossible for one man. In my opinion his role and Ann Cunningham's at this point should focus on managing this issue and all the other parts of their roles. In my opinion none of us will be well served if they are swamped with phone calls. They know the issues. The appropriate way to contact the Council in my opinion is to email or to go via your councillor and they will feed back to Stuart in a more controlled way. But hey, each to their own
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Well I do think it was short-sighted of them not to have set up a generic email account for queries specifically related to this project
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Permalink Reply by DavidJ on
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The council did put up an email address for queries:
http://www.haringey.gov.uk/parking-roads-and-travel/roads-and-stree...
I'm not sure how effective this is.
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Permalink Reply by Andrew Stillman on
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but its not just you going to the top, harry. youre urging others to do the same. what if 500 people call the councilor? or a thousand or two thousand? how does that help? have you even tried contacting the operational officers who do the job? surely 'going to the top' is a move reserved for when those lower down actually responsible for carrying out operations fail. to me an approach which immediately demands attention at the highest level smacks of a strong sense of entitlement. a person acting in this way is in effect saying that their needs supercede those of the other 240,000 people in the borough.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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"who has been stuck in traffic" <- no, you were traffic.
I'm sending Anne some flowers, god knows I used to call her up and berate her everytime the ontime parking enforcement trucks used my road as a rat-run. I never thought to post her number (on speed dial on my phone, along with Jacqui O'Donovan's) on HoL, that's creepy.
I hope people stop responding to this thread and it just dies with your lonely voice being the only one. Wind down your window and listen to the birds.
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Harry
Please tell me you don't still live on Harringay Road. You know, the one that is blocked off so that it can't be used as a (very useful) rat run? That would be a bit upsetting.
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Ah, are you still local?
One of the slightly depressing features of the last couple of days has been the number of people willing to campaign for other people's residential streets to be opened up as rat runs for their own convenience. Enough to make you despair about human nature.
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but harry, its not failing. were told that they expected problems while things were settling in. no major traffic change in the world is going to happen without an adjustment period. give it two or three weeks at least.
i agree that theres been a communications failure. that much is clear but if youre reading the information provided on this website then any gap in that respect should be filled for you.
i dont want to be part of a herd berating you. so there you have it, ive said my piece.
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