Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
'The best thing the Council could ever have done..' residents quotes about Wightman Bridge Works
127 people responded to Living Wightman's survey when the bridge works were in place last summer. Full survey results and more can be found in our post Fresh Start.
The experience was incredibly positive for the majority of local people - similar we suspect to what residents in Harringay Gardens already experience. Living Wightman want Haringey Council to protect blocks of residential streets across Haringey from through traffic. We want the Gardens and Hermitage areas to continue to be protected and for the Council to extend protection to other areas, starting with Harringay ladder and then moving on to other areas.
There were undoubtedly problems with traffic at some times of the day, during the bridge works.
We are campaigning for the Council's Package 4 - filtering BUT this must have other measures put in place to enable traffic and buses in particular to keep moving on the surrounding main roads.
Here’s a few of the comments received, the full set mainly positive, a few mixed and a few negative can be found here Quotes about Wightman Bridge Works
- It is much quieter in my flat without cars driving at speed past it. The air pollution has improved greatly. It used to be a horrible, polluted walk to Harringay station but it now feels much healthier. My flat mate and I much prefer the road not being used as a through road.
- The biggest difference is sleep at night!
- It's brought a community feel to the area which we never had
- Can have windows open without constant noise and soot. Literally the best thing that the council could ever have done for living standards
Tags for Forum Posts: 'green-lanes-area-transport-study', 'transport'
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Permalink Reply by 1vut8bf3om5m9 on
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Dear Living WIghtman-
I found it interesting that you people were motivated so as to put a leaflet though my letterbox regarding the Wood Green Shopping Centre consultation.
Surely the current council consultation you are talking about in your OP will engender similar grass roots actions on you part?
Some here on this site have proffered the argument that fewer locals wanted the Wightman Road filtering system than those who did not.
But then others retorted that LW conducted its own survey and found the opposite to be the case. Particularly, if that is so, then I emphatically encourage a door to door campaign to get Ladder residents in particular to support the "filtered" option in the consultation.
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At this point it becomes my own opinion and do with it / or not what you will: Forget being altruistic towards other areas--were they concerned about your well being when, e.g, the council blocked the roads in the Gardens?Frankly, once a permanent reality sets in, things have a way of working themselves out and that's what will happen with the traffic that everyone seems so concerned about.
At the end of the day, I am a person who has cycled all of Central London and there *literally* is no road more terrifying and palpably of such horrific air quality than Wightman Road. I come up each morning from where I live on the Ladder and when I get to WR the foul air hits like a slap in the face.
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