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 pandemic - increasing motor traffic to at least 120% of 2019 levels during September (there's more info here on APN). The DfT focused particularly on Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs), as the easiest, cheapest and most effective method of achieving this change. LTNs have been popping up all over inner London in the last few months, with the help of DfT and TfL funding - except in Haringey.
Now, however, the Council's bids to the DfT for Tranche 2 funding for LTNs in Bounds Green have been approved (as well as bids for large LTNs in Bruce Grove and St. Ann's wards). There are potentially two LTNs planned - one in the neighbourhood bounded by the Golf Course and Durnsford road, and another the other side of Bounds Green road, bounded by the latter and Green Lanes, and both bounded to the north by the Enfield border (it is in fact the knock-on effect of the huge new LTN in Bowes Park Enfield that has precipitated this move by LBH).
The DfT are putting a big emphasis on the need for consultation this time, since there were many complaints that their stipulations for emergency schemes in the summer did not include prior consultation. LBH will be rolling out various types of consultation in the New Year - so we need to be on our toes to make sure that everyone's views are heard and acted upon!
Note - the blue and green lines on the map are proposed cycle routes.
There are yet more developments. The new Cabinet member for Strategic Transport, Matt White, has succeeded in securing internal funds for Haringey's Walking and Cycling Action plan - £5.1m from the Community Infrastructure Levy, collected from housing developers as their contribution to improving the infrastructure needed by the residents in their new developments. Consultation on the WCA plan will also be taking place sometime in the New Year.
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Good news, but I'm confused about the map. Is it an official council map? The map on the council website only shows phase 1 - the Blake Road scheme, and not the larger area between Bounds Green Road and Wood Green High Road. Do you have good information that the council intend to do both?
Though Durnsford Road is shown as part of the planned LTN, I assume that it will actually be on the periphery?
Here in Enfield (I live in Palmers Green) we haven't heard from our council as to whether they've been successful in Tranche 2. This is extremely important, because Enfield's bid includes closing Brownlow Road to through traffic, other than buses, and Brownlow residents have to put up with appalling queues of traffic, sometimes almost the entire length of the street, and the LTN has probably exacerbated this by deflecting some former Warwick Road traffic.
Hi Basil, thanks for posting. The info. is on the Council website here, and if you scroll up, there is a map with both proposed LTNs on it - the above map is a section of this. The Council have been prioritising the neighbourhood marked as Phase2 on the map more recently - things have changed since the bid was put into TfL/DfT several months ago. There have been ongoing discussions between Haringey and Enfield, so presumably there can be a bit of flexibility about this.
We are waiting for further details about what the funding is for - twice as much has been awarded as was bid for (!!!), so I think we were assuming that it was for both LTNs, since the original bid was high even for the one.
I assume that Enfield will have their bid for Brownlow approved ... Yes, Durnsford is on the periphery of the proposed BG scheme, as I understand it. But this LTN would make a big difference to Brownlow - stopping drivers from taking an indirect route to get round the no-left-turn from Bounds Green road to Brownlow - ?
Basil, Annabel - I got in touch with Council Officers and they have confirmed that the Tranch 2 successful bid includes both areas, West and East ( i.e. the area between Bounds Green Road and High Road N22). They will update the map on the Haringey Streetspace page, the one on the Bounds Green page is updated : https://www.haringey.gov.uk/parking-roads-and-travel/travel/transpo...
Many thanks, Alessandra.