Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Take the Traffic Study Ladder packages straw poll
As mentioned over on the GL area traffic study thread it would be interesting to gauge the level of support for the four alternative packages of changes that are being proposed for the Ladder.
So take the straw poll - here - its very short so wont take long to answer.
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Permalink Reply by Charlotte A on
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Because it's not particularly healthy to spend all your time in your house and never see or interact with other humans other than over email/Skype?
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Yes, it's great to sit out the front of your house and chat to your neighbour. Also you get to meet all their friends who walk past and say Hi. Sadly you'll also breathe in a lot of pollution and if there's a traffic jam outside your house you'll even smell it in your back yard.
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Permalink Reply by JoeW on
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Charlotte, there are surveys indicating that telecommuters report being less stressed and eating more healthily than office workers, and having a better work/life balance. I guess if they replace the journey time with a run or gym session they will be healthier.
But to get back to my original point, if you want the freedom to drive, it would be better to live and work in the country. High population densities and high levels of car use are incompatible, at least if you want the population to be healthy.
Everyone can accept that if you want the benefits of urban living you have to put up with a bit of dirt and noise. But no one should accept that you can only have the benefits of urban living if you put up with, say, the growth of your children's lungs being stunted by air pollution.
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I expect there are also surveys saying that they feel isolated from their teams and the business they work for, and have fewer prospects for promotion. Those are issues that are regularly reported by the home workers at my employer.
I'm not sure home working would suit the kind of people who drive to work, builders, teachers, estate agents...
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I'm sure you're right telecommuting will suit some and not others. I'm not particularly promoting home working but I know plenty of people who like it.
The problem isn't just the people who drive to work though. Have a look at this chart of Wightman traffic on a Monday:
You can see about 800 journeys per hour between 7 and 11, I suppose it might be all the local builders, teachers and estate agents turning up for work but there seems to be lots of them? And traffic get busier as the day goes on until eventually all the builders and teachers and estate agents go home so we get about 1200 journeys per hour around 5 or 6pm. By 8pm traffic has dropped to a mere 600 journeys per hour, and doesn't drop below 200/hr until after midnight.
Given the road width and residential nature of these streets I think a maximum volume of 50-100 vehicles in the peak hours (500-1000 per day) would provide a reasonable level of what the consultants call "amenity" for the residents. Wightman Road currently has over 16,000 vehicle movements every day - hence the need for filtering.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Walk to the Harringay Local Store?
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Permalink Reply by Ruth on
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It's not too far to walk to Holland and Barrett either.... round here, nowhere is that far by foot or bus. I guess that's why it's such a popular place to live!
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Straw Man. And it's Manuka.
It would be closed as it was last summer and become useless to through traffic. Deliveries of Manuka Honey and Champagne from Ocado would still be possible for all the local socialists.
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