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I don't buy it because it is premised on the view that the vehicle numbers will be the same pre and post filtering. This was shown not to be the case per last summer and even if we didn't have last summer, I wouldn't buy it anyway.
This morning on Alroy Road the cyclist in front of me got taken out by someone who abruptly pulled a U-turn.
As I have stated many times, of all the roads in London I cycle on, Wightman Road is the worst and most dangerous. But it's worth killing and injuring cyclists now and again so the opposers here are not inconvenienced and can get to where they want to go ostensibly faster.
There will be a lot more of this if Wightman is filtered as motorists realise that they can go no further and want to turn round.
I was just starting to type the same thing. And moreover, once the reality sets in, there won't be motorists arriving who then come to realise they would need to make a U-turn (which I don't really get anyway since all of the ladder roads are one way--who would do a U-turn to go to the road they just came up?)
I can only speak from observation at the North end of Wightman last summer. Even in September, after months of closure and in-your-face signage, drivers were still turning off Turnpike Lane and U turning at Lausanne. At peak times there were literally queues of cars waiting to turn round.
Cars would come up Lausanne and do their usual rat-run turn towards Crouch End, not realising that the road was closed until it was literally in their faces and then.... do a U-turn. It wasn't done at speed from a line of traffic though which is when it's really dangerous so, straw man John D.
People were doing U-turns in order to be able to go straight over the lights at the Turnpike Lane junction weren't they? You can't turn right out of Turnpike Lane so you had no option (to get to the tip for example) but to do a U-turn on Wightman.
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