Haringey may finally be catching up with the directive by the DfT last May for local councils to introduce measures to encourage Active Travel. This was given impetus by the mass shift to cars from public transport that has taken place during the pan
“Now we must see emergency action from all levels of government: the prime minister, the mayor and every local council, to eliminate the sources of deadly air pollution.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ella-kissi-debrah-inquest-result
Read more…Haringey Council have at last produced a serious proposal for School Streets in the borough - details are here (starts p.80). Its purpose is to restrict access by motor vehicles to streets in which primary schools are located at the start and end of
Read more…The DfT have now missed their third deadline of 31st October to announce their decision on this bid - and on many others in London and up and down the country. So does this suggest that it is being kicked into the long grass ... ? btw Alexandra North
Read more…Announcement from the Palace:
Further to government announcements over the weekend and in order to help manage what we anticipate will be a challenging few days for Alexandra Park, we have this morning decided to close Alexandra Palace Way to private
Read more…Did you know all our main roads in Haringey exceed safe limits for air quality set by the EU and that a third of Haringey schools are in pollution hotspots? Poor air quality impacts all of our lives, and particularly those of our children.
What can w
Read more…It looks like we are actually going to get lifts at the station - 3 of them! It was announced at the Haringey Transport Forum today that Network Rail are currently estimating the cost (by end of October), and a bid will go to the DfT for funds, with
Read more…Ask for your street to be considered for a Play Street on London Car Free Day, or a Healthy School Street, or various other options via this site. Somebody has already requested that Crescent Road in the Palace Gates neighbourhood has a Play Street f
The information below has been provided by James Aufenast of Winton Avenue:
Following a meeting between Alexandra and Bound Green councillors and traffic officers at Haringey Council, a bid has been submitted for a Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) sch
Read more…Anyone living in the northern part of Alexandra ward (as well as part of Bounds Green ward) is invited to take part in a new, very brief traffic survey created by local residents. That is to say, residents of the roads bounded by Bounds Green and Dur
Read more…Winton Avenue, Blake Road and Woodfield Way, in the neighbourhood between Bounds Green station and Albert Road Rec, have had to deal with rat-running traffic for many years. Drivers choose this route – prompted by satnavs – to avoid the junction at B
Read more…Residents in the Bowes Park neighbourhood – which straddles the Haringey and Enfield border – have long had to contend with major rat-running between the major roads that surround it – the North Circular on the west and north, and Green Lanes and Bou
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