Tags for Forum Posts: traffic, wightman bridge, wightman bridge closure
Fair comment, sort of, but perhaps a bit picky, Antoinette.
Wightman was pretty empty, but for once there were more people than cars. My principal reaction when I walk down Wightman is still one of utter disbelief. I never thought I'd see the day. So whether it's people or empty streets, I'm still gobsmacked.
Remember the street is not pedestrianised. You wouldn't find it truly busy with people unless a. they added signs at the junctions of the Ladder roads with Green Lanes to stop traffic circling, and b. they stopped motorbikes using the road.
In the meantime the sights I've seen on Wightman this week leave me all but jaw-dropped.
To keep you happy, I've changed to title. Better?
"Our entire economy would implode" <- blind speculation.
"Let's pedestrianise the whole of London" <- straw man.
We're just talking about residential roads Antoinette.
Anyway, Elon Musk had 276,000 orders and $276,000,000 in cash by Sunday night for his Model 3 Tesla. In two years time when customers hand over the remaining $34,000 they may become the last people ever to own a fully electric motor vehicle. Part of the trick with the internal combustion engine was that it required a lot of maintenance and the vendor did the maintenance, which allowed them to discount the vehicles. With fully electric motor vehicles the maintenance will be virtually nothing and so they will most probably be leased. That's in a little over two years. In a little over 5 years we'll have a slick fleet of self driving taxis which will free up massive amounts of space on London's roads and make private travel much more efficient. That's not blind speculation, that's where the world's investors are betting.
electricity is not produced particularly cleanly or impact free to the environment. Electric motors in cars is the bomb, but not really clean.
This is as much a fallacy as seeing the road tax based on emissions and considering diesel cars cleaner than petrol.
That aside, batteries are not particularly clean and quite expensive to replace.
Wake me up when we get hydrogen-powered cars (and a good way of manufacturing the hydrogen)
And complete respect for Mr Musk. He is playing a massive part in that change, but I think 20-50 years would be more accurate in terms of estimate
I have been taken by surprise by what a massive difference the close of Wightman Road is making. I cycle 6 miles to work to Swiss Cottage from the ladder and Wightman Road is certainly the scariest and most dangerous stretch of road on my journey. It is so good not to have cars and vans coming within inches of me each day. The closure led me and my son to walk together to Harringay Library along Wightman Road, something we'd never have done before. I hadn't realised how much I braced myself just before I hit Wightman road, whether it's coming out of my road to cycle, walking back across Harringay Station Bridge or coming out of the New River Path - each time I suddenly remember there are no cars and can feel myself relax. I, like many others, drive, but try to use my car as little as possible. The times I've been out in the car since Wightman Road has been closed, have not been too bad.
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