Don't Reroute Wood Green Traffic to the Ladder
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WOOD GREEN TOWN PLAN (SPD) TRANSPORT IMPLICATIONS FOR THE HARRINGAY LADDER
Background
The Wood Green SPD document contains many sensible proposals for the improvement of the built environment of Wood Green Town Centre. However the document fails to place Wood Green in its proper context in relation to traffic and transport. Specifically, it fails to show a clear understanding of the impact of some of the proposals for the surrounding area. At no point in the document is there consideration of traffic flowing through rather than within or to and from Wood Green. By neglecting through traffic, it becomes easy to neglect the impact on surrounding areas of displaced through traffic resulting from proposals such as a Bus only High Road or to a lesser extent as a result of increases in congestion from removing bus lay-byes or removing the Shopping City bridge and replacing it with a ground level crossing.
Tfl best practice guidance states that a Transport Assessment should be able to demonstrate how developments affect demands for travel and how all travel demands and service requirements will be met. Given recent experience with the failure to predict the resulting traffic problems at Green Lanes and Williamson Road in Harringay resulting from a modest change in the facilities in that area, it is clear that proposals as extensive as closing Wood Green High Road to all but buses would have a major impact on surrounding areas [the Spatial Plan on page 6 makes clear that the only alternative route for North-South traffic would be through the residential streets of the Ladder]. It would seem prudent to undertake thorough traffic surveying and modelling including Harringay and St Anns wards before any such changes were considered.
The theme of sustainability has a high profile within the document. This manifests itself through a number of proposals including an alternative [to using the High Road] cycle route using Alexandra Road, Turnpike Lane and onto Wightman Road. No consideration is given to the cycling environment on Turnpike Lane or Wightman Road. In fact, if traffic were displaced from the High Road to Wightman Road as a result of the closure of the High Road there would be little need for a new cycle route and any new route along Wightman Road would be more dangerous than less friendly than that road currently is.
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THIS PETITION WILL CLOSE AT MIDNIGHT ON 22nd JUNE 2008
Petition Statement
Closure of Wood Green High Road to vehicles other than buses and allowing south-bound traffic to turn right at Station Road would result in the displacement of large volumes of North-South traffic around Station Road, through the new link road and along Wightman Road and the other Ladder roads. Equally, north bound traffic would have little option than to follow the reverse route.
We note that, inspite of its paying lip service to sustainability, and in the absence of proper traffic modelling the Council already has in place the Heartlands link road necessary for re-routing High Road traffic.
We believe that:
We demand that:
Background
The Wood Green SPD document contains many sensible proposals for the improvement of the built environment of Wood Green Town Centre. However the document fails to place Wood Green in its proper context in relation to traffic and transport. Specifically, it fails to show a clear understanding of the impact of some of the proposals for the surrounding area. At no point in the document is there consideration of traffic flowing through rather than within or to and from Wood Green. By neglecting through traffic, it becomes easy to neglect the impact on surrounding areas of displaced through traffic resulting from proposals such as a Bus only High Road or to a lesser extent as a result of increases in congestion from removing bus lay-byes or removing the Shopping City bridge and replacing it with a ground level crossing.
Tfl best practice guidance states that a Transport Assessment should be able to demonstrate how developments affect demands for travel and how all travel demands and service requirements will be met. Given recent experience with the failure to predict the resulting traffic problems at Green Lanes and Williamson Road in Harringay resulting from a modest change in the facilities in that area, it is clear that proposals as extensive as closing Wood Green High Road to all but buses would have a major impact on surrounding areas [the Spatial Plan on page 6 makes clear that the only alternative route for North-South traffic would be through the residential streets of the Ladder]. It would seem prudent to undertake thorough traffic surveying and modelling including Harringay and St Anns wards before any such changes were considered.
The theme of sustainability has a high profile within the document. This manifests itself through a number of proposals including an alternative [to using the High Road] cycle route using Alexandra Road, Turnpike Lane and onto Wightman Road. No consideration is given to the cycling environment on Turnpike Lane or Wightman Road. In fact, if traffic were displaced from the High Road to Wightman Road as a result of the closure of the High Road there would be little need for a new cycle route and any new route along Wightman Road would be more dangerous than less friendly than that road currently is.
For more information visit Harringay Online
THIS PETITION WILL CLOSE AT MIDNIGHT ON 22nd JUNE 2008
Petition Statement
Closure of Wood Green High Road to vehicles other than buses and allowing south-bound traffic to turn right at Station Road would result in the displacement of large volumes of North-South traffic around Station Road, through the new link road and along Wightman Road and the other Ladder roads. Equally, north bound traffic would have little option than to follow the reverse route.
We note that, inspite of its paying lip service to sustainability, and in the absence of proper traffic modelling the Council already has in place the Heartlands link road necessary for re-routing High Road traffic.
We believe that:
- The SPD fails to consider aspects of traffic movement through Wood Green.
- A direct consequence of some of the proposals in the SPD would be the displacement of traffic around Wood Green and, in particular, through the Harringay Ladder.
We demand that:
- The Council have proper regard for planning guidance and conduct a thorough traffic assessment including a comprehensive survey and modelling exercise using independent expertise having consulted residents and interested parties in Harringay and St Anns wards, amongst others, on the terms of reference of such work.
- That no changes be made to the status of Wood Green High Road until such surveying and modelling is complete and interested parties have had a chance to consider and be consulted on the conclusions.
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Iona Desai
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- its just a matter of time before a nasty accident occurs with the increasing amount of traffic that occurrs on the ladder, please don't make it worse and the roads can't take it - they are falling apart already with the heavy lorries that use the ladder as s short cut! thanks
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Karen Rafferty
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Elizabeth Ixer
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Margaret Jones
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- I am very worried about the impact of closing Wood green High Street on local traffic eg Wightman Road, ladder Roads and the surounding area.
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Jason McLaughlin
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Gareth White
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Anna Mullin
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Paul Harvey
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- I totally agree, traffic is already at unacceptable levels in the area and this will have a significant impact on the local area.
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Nicola Penfold
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Dominic Burton
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- I do not agree on closing the wood green high street as I believe it will increase traffic on wightman road which and on Lausanne which already have much to much traffic for a residential area.
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T homas Spanyol
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- Wightman certainly can't take the extra traffic a bus-only High Road would probably generate. Would be even more of a disaster for cyclists... Traffic from A105 should not have to divert via residential "B" roads.
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Stuart Freedman
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Mike Nielsen
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- These are narrow residential streets, already over-run.Please don't make them worse.
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Paul Soper
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- Typical Haringey (lack of) planning
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Hugh Flouch
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Eddie Finnegan
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- Bus-only or pedestrianisation of WG High Road is superficially attractive until you consider the consequences. As Wightman Rd resident for 31 years I know what those consequences will be. Heartlands traffic will be atrocious. Don't make it worse.
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David Trickett
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Catherine Edis
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- Please bear in mind Sainsbury's fiasco and implications on surrounding area, including the already overladen Wightman Road, which is too narrow and has too many junctions and is totally residential. It shouldn't take any more traffic. Whilst I sympathise with the desire to make Wood Green High Road car-free, the displaced traffic will have to go somewhere and the current roads you want it to go along are as busy if not more than Wood Green High Road.
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Nicola King
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Marsha Gomez
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- this will be a nightmare for residents!!
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Alison Park
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Jonathan Elphick
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- Already there is far too much traffic on Wightman and the other ladder roads: this proposal will greatly exacerbate the problems from pollution, risk and noise that we already face
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richard Zajdlic
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Geraldine McCarthy
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Maria Teresa Rodriguez de Lizana
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Phongphaneth Praseuth
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Ruth Edwards
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Claire Le Neveu
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Kim Davis
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M.Burge
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Alastair McLellan
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Caspar Gordon
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- Please inform me and others of any upcoming residents consultation, in regards to the 'further investigative traffic modelling work' mentioned on page 30 of the Wood Green Town Centre Draft SPD -May 2008.
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Paul Jenkins
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james walsh
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- a consultation is required with us, the people who live in harringay
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Kelly Arnstein
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Yvonne Rose
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Rogan Macdonald
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Ian Weir
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Olympia Harvey
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Dan Waters
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A. E. Lang
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- To make this already congested area sustainable in the future, consideration needs to be given to cycling provision. Where is this in the plan? Wightman Rd is already far too dangerous to cycle on; this will make it even worse.
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Louise Loughney
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Jane Hill
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Colin Bannon
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Simon Pasquill
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Martha Sampson
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Eilidh Murray
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Gillian Pengelly
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Ant Elder
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Anna Shepherd
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