Harringay Traffic Stakeholder Group membership

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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on May 18, 2016 at 8:25

John D overlooked part of the last sentence. "I don't understand why our local priority is not to get rid of cars, as far as we can."

I presume that means allowing delivery vehicles and emergency services, but not HGVs, delivering or not, or the majority of private cars.

As for John D's statement "Given the flagrant misuse of disabled-driver permits, how are you going to identify " people who for whatever reason need a car " . Nobody 'needs' a car. Car sharing systems using electric vehicles for those who need mobility should be available. This would have the benefit of removing the flagrant misuse of permits and enabling many residential streets to become play streets again, rather than the ugly and dangerous car parks that they currently are. Imagine a green band of trees all along Harringay Passage and across all Ladder roads.

The current mix is unsustainable and today's generation is selfishly squandering the environment at the cost of future generations. It's also time that British politicians and the supporters of dirty nuclear power take a trip to the Ukraine to see the exclusion zone around Chernobyl - an area more than the size of London that will be off bounds for tens of thousands of years. What a legacy for today's children and their descendants.

Permalink Reply by markb on May 23, 2016 at 18:48

"The current mix is unsustainable and today's generation is selfishly squandering the environment at the cost of future generations"

I'd argue the squandering has been going on since the start of humanity (significant deforestation in Britain started in the Bronze age, just to pick an example).

We've only recently started having the economical, technological & political capability to begin to do something about it. The current generation is driving less, miles per capita are stagnant, young people are migrating to urban areas (again, less driving per capita).  

The problem is very much the previous generations (all of the them), the current one is just picking up the pieces and making do.

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