I was just wondering this week how the other ladder roads are being affecting by the current Wightman closure. Are any road benefiting more than others or suffering more traffic. It would be really interesting to know as I have always thought that Wightman Road is the key to finding a solution the traffic issue on the ladder.
The traffic situation seems much calmer on Endymion both in the morning and evening and I walked down Green Lanes this morning about 7.30am and it didn't seem any more congested than normal (before the closure of WR). I appreciate that there are still issues with the traffic on Hornsey High Street coming down to Turnpike Lane.
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Thankfully the volumes of traffic on Hewitt as measured in 2016 were similar to or greater than those of about a third of the Ladder. I'm with you on getting the other two-thirds down to the same level.
Well, yes….. But what’s "local traffic"? Mattison to Crouch End via Wightman? Wood Green shopping centre to Hewitt? Sainsbury’s to Pemberton (barely a quarter of a mile but hardly environmentally friendly)? The traffic survey couldn't ask drivers where their journeys started and ended, so even Hornsey Park Road to Endymion might count as "cutting through"; surely it's impossible to sort out "good" traffic from "bad"? Lots of people would argue that journeys under, say, a mile should be on foot, by bike or by bus if practicable, so if that became the norm then cars using Wightman, etc, would by definition be the longer-distance travellers many residents want to discourage.
As I said above, one person’s smart solution to avoiding jams is another’s use of a road as a rat run. It would be really great to reduce traffic all down the Ladder but what is the solution to Green Lanes that will enable this?
Red Route beckons then logically vis-a-vis Seven Sisters Road.
Or maybe the real solution is to reduce car usage in the first place? Also, as has been mentioned the parking on Green Lanes is ridiculous.
I did read an article on a study that found that rat running worsened congestion overall, although improved the journey time for the person rat running. I'm finding it difficult to find unfortunately.
I live on Falkland and it's been amazing. And there appears to be very little impact on North Harringay School drop off an pick ups either. There's virtually no noise, virtually no pollution, demonstrably less rubbish on the streets and the bliss of a residential road being as it should be. I also use my car around the surrounding roads and will gladly swap our new quality of life with a slightly longer journey around Turnpike Lane etc. I'll be gutted if the roads open again to the status quo beforehand, with clearly the vast majority of traffic from out of the borough using Falkland as a rat run as the first available right hand turn after Turnpike Lane up through Hornsey.
It's a nightmare to get anywhere at the moment. I've stopped going to local independent shops for what I need and am buying more online as it's more time efficient for me.
Commuting in the mornings and evenings (via public transport) has added at least an hour to my day. The sooner it's over the better.
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