Cycling on Green lanes - Harringay online2024-03-29T09:04:34Zhttps://harringayonline.com/forum/topics/cycling-on-green-lanes?commentId=844301%3AComment%3A1082515&xg_source=activity&feed=yes&xn_auth=noLong ago and far away in Tott…tag:harringayonline.com,2018-05-21:844301:Comment:10834922018-05-21T09:28:25.659ZAlan Stantonhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/AlanStanton
<p>Long ago and far away in Tottenham Hale near the <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">tube & bus station</span> Transport Interchange, some of us wondered how the existing roads would manage a surge of vehicles associated with a wall of new residential towers.<br></br>One of the consultants for property developers helpfully explained that as the traffic then jammed frequently, additional traffic wouldn't make much difference. Drivers encountering long delays would self regulate.…</p>
<p>Long ago and far away in Tottenham Hale near the <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">tube & bus station</span> Transport Interchange, some of us wondered how the existing roads would manage a surge of vehicles associated with a wall of new residential towers.<br/>One of the consultants for property developers helpfully explained that as the traffic then jammed frequently, additional traffic wouldn't make much difference. Drivers encountering long delays would self regulate. <br/>This elegant solution prompted my vision of a walking and cycling nirvana across the River Lea and into High Road Tottenham and onward to Green Lanes.<br/><br/>Simply prepare for the expected ultimate megajam snarl-up. Then evacuate all drivers and passengers from their hopelessly marooned vehicles. And when the rescue is complete, pouring concrete from drones covering over the lines of steel scrap. Until it formed a new elevated, reinforced steel, linear park/cycleway. Vastly wider and grander than the <a rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coul%C3%A9e_verte_Ren%C3%A9-Dumont" target="_blank">Coulée verte in Paris</a> and <a rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Line" target="_blank">New York's High Line</a>.</p>
<p>Other roads can be converted the same way. Until you, OAE, can enjoy looking out from your existing penthouse roof garden at the ribbon of colour below.</p> On behalf of all pedestrianis…tag:harringayonline.com,2018-05-20:844301:Comment:10833922018-05-20T13:57:52.493ZOld-Age-Emporium(OAE)https://harringayonline.com/profile/OldAgeEmporiumOAE
<p>On behalf of all pedestrianised Wightman Road residents, may I apologise to all two-wheeled travellers for our awkwardness, our hilliness, our narrowness, our all round inferiority and our very existence. The sense of entitlement once a mark of the four-wheeled has of late become the badge of the bicyclist. It beats me why you guys don't go for a more radical solution. The removal of our "front gardens" would afford the bicycle brigade a uniform strip of an extra 6 ft on either side of WR,…</p>
<p>On behalf of all pedestrianised Wightman Road residents, may I apologise to all two-wheeled travellers for our awkwardness, our hilliness, our narrowness, our all round inferiority and our very existence. The sense of entitlement once a mark of the four-wheeled has of late become the badge of the bicyclist. It beats me why you guys don't go for a more radical solution. The removal of our "front gardens" would afford the bicycle brigade a uniform strip of an extra 6 ft on either side of WR, easily doubled by the abolition of the present on-pavement parking by the four-wheeled. The demolition of our garden walls would also provide useful hardcore to fill up the dips and valleys of your new 12ft cycle path. LBH and TfL may then delete from their lexicons such archaisms as <em>footpath, footway, pedestrian</em> etc. Pending the later demolition of our Victorian terraces, we shall make do and manage to remain inside and cultivate our rear gardens. Special arrangements may have to be made for very occasional Iceland deliveries, ambulances, hearses and the like. Back-garden cremation/burial would allow us a much more self-contained womb-to-tomb existence and after-life with no risk of injury or inconvenience to any Wightman Road bicyclist. Hoping this helps.</p> I'm a motorist and I don't ha…tag:harringayonline.com,2018-05-19:844301:Comment:10833802018-05-19T22:13:51.767ZJohn Dhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/JohnD
<p>I'm a motorist and I don't have a murderous attitude so please don't generalise. As it happens, I have been doing about 10k miles each year for the last 50 years which adds up to half a million miles and I haven't killed anyone yet.</p>
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<p>I'm a motorist and I don't have a murderous attitude so please don't generalise. As it happens, I have been doing about 10k miles each year for the last 50 years which adds up to half a million miles and I haven't killed anyone yet.</p>
<p></p> Well if people are getting of…tag:harringayonline.com,2018-05-19:844301:Comment:10834472018-05-19T19:17:08.711Ztighahttps://harringayonline.com/profile/tigha
<p>Well if people are getting off buses in the middle of cycle lanes, then of course people will avoid it. It’s no brainier once again. Doh</p>
<p>Well if people are getting off buses in the middle of cycle lanes, then of course people will avoid it. It’s no brainier once again. Doh</p> Very poor excusetag:harringayonline.com,2018-05-19:844301:Comment:10832042018-05-19T19:11:05.887Ztighahttps://harringayonline.com/profile/tigha
<p>Very poor excuse</p>
<p>Very poor excuse</p> as a compromise HC could have…tag:harringayonline.com,2018-05-18:844301:Comment:10831142018-05-18T17:35:36.038Zpaddykhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/paddykelleher
<p style="text-align: center;">as a compromise HC could have banned parking on one side of green lanes, allowing a cycle lane.and somehow route it to finsbury park, and thrn quiet roads near old highbury arsenal on to highbury fields. its hardly rocket science</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">as a compromise HC could have banned parking on one side of green lanes, allowing a cycle lane.and somehow route it to finsbury park, and thrn quiet roads near old highbury arsenal on to highbury fields. its hardly rocket science</p> True to some extent but I rem…tag:harringayonline.com,2018-05-18:844301:Comment:10830222018-05-18T17:31:57.494Zpaddykhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/paddykelleher
<p>True to some extent but I remember in the 80s/early 90s before the big UK chains came in ( M and S destroyed what was then Brown THomas, Bewleys became Starbucks on westmoreland st, at least there is some uniqueness about grafton st left</p>
<p>True to some extent but I remember in the 80s/early 90s before the big UK chains came in ( M and S destroyed what was then Brown THomas, Bewleys became Starbucks on westmoreland st, at least there is some uniqueness about grafton st left</p> A shame this never took off a…tag:harringayonline.com,2018-05-18:844301:Comment:10831722018-05-18T12:39:04.878ZJohn McMullanhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/bogan72
<p>A shame <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyCycle_(proposed_transport_project)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this</a> never took off as I'd rather have a 20m wide cycle lane than that narrow strip.</p>
<p>A shame <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyCycle_(proposed_transport_project)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this</a> never took off as I'd rather have a 20m wide cycle lane than that narrow strip.</p> There's a lot of room by the…tag:harringayonline.com,2018-05-18:844301:Comment:10831682018-05-18T12:33:06.399ZHarringayBirderhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/HarringayBirder
<p>There's a lot of room by the side of railway lines which is usually occupied by vegetation and as a lot of it is being cleared by Network Rail they could do a lot worse than put in cycle lanes either side (you'd need barriers separating the lanes from the lines of course). The train lines are straight, level, and tend to go places people want to go. You'd also get some great views as you cycled and you would, of course, be well away from cars.</p>
<p>For now, if heading to the Arsenal…</p>
<p>There's a lot of room by the side of railway lines which is usually occupied by vegetation and as a lot of it is being cleared by Network Rail they could do a lot worse than put in cycle lanes either side (you'd need barriers separating the lanes from the lines of course). The train lines are straight, level, and tend to go places people want to go. You'd also get some great views as you cycled and you would, of course, be well away from cars.</p>
<p>For now, if heading to the Arsenal stadium from near the Salisbury I cycle down Green Lanes then up past the park, right at Manor House, down the hill then left into Finsbury Park Road opposite Lidl. I then take the first right onto Somerfield Road and cross Blackstock Road into Ambler Road which I take down to Gillespie Road. Then right and then left round the bend to the stadium.</p> Yes - and thanks for doing so!tag:harringayonline.com,2018-05-18:844301:Comment:10830912018-05-18T12:27:02.466ZHarringayBirderhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/HarringayBirder
<p>Yes - and thanks for doing so!<img src="http://www.bkserv.net/images/Grin.gif"/></p>
<p>Yes - and thanks for doing so!<img src="http://www.bkserv.net/images/Grin.gif"/></p>