Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Making Wightman Our Own (For 6 Months At Least)
Anyone not know that Wightman is closed for the next few months?
How do we make the most of it? Wightman has been a most unloved part of our world because of the traffic blight, and we should take the current closure as an opportunity to do something positive over these coming spring and summer months.
We've been teased with a few ideas and images, from cycling kids, to generally perambulating for no other reason but that you can (I even ran in the middle of the road the other day). I heard talk of kids roaming unaccompanied on their way home from school today and (shock) a BBQ in one front garden- can it be true? There is even a mooted street party.
A couple of thoughts to get you going....
- Reclaim the bollards: Stealing Eugene's picture (I loved this). Any thoughts on (say) getting the Turnpike Art Group to help turn the bollards into some from of static art installation? Maybe work with the local schools and get the kids involved? Maybe have one set of bollards to be our very own 'fourth plinth' and have a rotating piece of art for a month? I have heard talk of setting cyclist who do not dismount when crossing the temp bridge to be cast in concrete and pilloried. Any volunteers John?
- Plant The Streets: Guerrilla garden around the plinths (ala Friends of the Harringay Passage and their raised beds plantings along the Passage). Get some planters going to try to break up the drab grey of concrete and harsh tarmac with our own 'Harirngay In Bloom'.
- Mass Cycle: Get Dr bike out and have a bike event, I had my son learning to ride on Allory Road at the weekend. Can we have a mass cycle event and get Hugh to take a picture with more than three yoots in it?
Use the appropriate voting buttons if you have any thoughts.
Tags for Forum Posts: traffic, wightman bridge, wightman bridge closure
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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I wonder if the cafe could get a temporary licence for tables and chairs?
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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A whingeing community, I would have thought.
The whole tone of the forum has gone downhill over the last month. Rudeness, aggression, selfish attitudes.
There was ample warning about the road closures and opportunity for consultation /suggestions. But now people seem to think they can halt or modify a project which has been in planning for years.
Let's be positive and enjoy the good things in life - Spring for example.
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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Absolutely agree, Souvarine. Just what we need here on Wightman. There's nothing to beat a programme of enforced spontaneous eccentricity, laced with helpings of dictated communal vibrancy. But can it be organic if it is not organised? And who will appoint the enforcers and dictators, or centralise the eccentrics? Where is Boris Souvarine when we really need him?
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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I'm happy to be cast in concrete for not WANTING to dismount to go over the temporary bridge. If we do that can I still be alive to witness the machine gunning to death of every f*cker who drives over the pavement at the top of Hampden Road? Some of them will be mothers clutching their babies so I bet it gets more TV coverage than my death.
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No that I've told Justin where to go over my reluctance to dismount...
I think there is a point about spontaneity and the thing we need to concentrate on is making it known more widely what has happened and how long it will be like that. I wish the drivers would look into concentrating their car parking in a way more conducive to this.
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Can you explain what you mean about the car parking...
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They could all park close together and not on the bits of road that are actually no-go areas for cars, except for parking. There seems to be lots of space. Then we'd have quite a few bits of road that were free for doing stuff on.
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