Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Oxford Street to be pedestrianised by 2020 ... so Wightman Rd ...
... can surely be closed to through traffic in the future, as it currently is during the bridge works. If the planners can deal with the re-routing of all those buses and taxi journeys away from Oxford Street for the pedestrianisation plans, it must be possible to do this for Wightman Road as well.
Living Wightman would do well to have a chat with the new Mayor's office.
Tags for Forum Posts: traffic, wightman bridge closure
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Permalink Reply by ChrisTofer on
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Harringay Council couldn't organise a p*ss-up in a brewery, so never mind sorting our local traffic problems. Also it makes so much money issuing traffic and parking tickets, why would it kill the goose that lays the golden eggs?
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Yup!
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Permalink Reply by Anna Maria Dipino on
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What a totally ridiculous idea.
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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Why is that Anna? Plenty of areas in Italian cities now have access only to residents and for deliveries. It's a world wide trend. It's probably why over 75% of respondents to the Living Wightman survey like the idea of keeping Wightman as it is now.
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75% of who? The wight man road residents? I highly doubt that figure includes residents of surrounding areas, or is in fact independent verifield.
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So what.
We are not in Italy.
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Permalink Reply by Toni Ramon Gallo on
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Brava Anna
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Speaking as one of the (apparently) few on HoL living on the wrong side of the tracks - well, Green Lanes, actually, as I'm in Glenwood - and as a totally-frustrated bus user, who doesn't drive and has shonky knees which mean I don't cycle and can't walk as much as I'd like, so therefore also use taxis from time to time (except at present, as a significant local road seems to be closed and is playing hell with the traffic flow in the vicinity)…. I would support the long-term closure of Wightman Road if all those on here urging it would agree to have their own cars fitted with a device that prevents them EVER driving down a residential road anywhere in London that isn't an A road and using clever "short cuts" - or "rat runs" as their residents no doubt call them - to get from Harringay to anywhere else.
Seriously: The railway's an impenetrable barrier on the west; the Gardens are blocked on the east; so Green Lanes, which was always bad, is now often impassable. Yes, it'd be lovely if everyone cycled, walked or jogged but - as Antoinette and others have said - life can't always be like that. I'd happily pay more tax if it guaranteed cheaper, more frequent public transport (bring back trams) and I'd rather not use a car, even as a passenger, but that's a long-term objective and increased taxation isn't exactly a vote-winner either. In the short term, other than building a new railway bridge from Harringay to Hornsey, we're stuck with the geography as it is. Any solution has to look at the whole area, preferably from the North Circular down to Seven Sisters Road, because we have Victorian streets and too much traffic of all kinds. Expedient solutions just shift the problem to the next-nearest road.
Now: hands up all those in Wightman and the Ladder who cheered when Gardens residents - so often stigmatised on here for allegedly having undue influence on the council/councillors - got barriers and bollards on their roads, pushing more traffic onto Green Lanes and (is it possible?) onto Ladder roads as well….
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