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Victoria Road Traffic calming scheme
Received a request for comments form from Haringey for traffic calming measures
- North of Upper Tollington Park
- East of SGR
- South and including Stapleton Hall Road.
Basically it is to introduce a 20 mph speed limit for the area and to use speed bumps, raised junctions etc to enforce it.
I'm very much in agreement with it, but if they are saying this is a residential area shouldn't they also do something about the number of lorries who use these roads as well ( particularly London Waste ).
Perhaps a weight limit should be added to the signs as well?
- North of Upper Tollington Park
- East of SGR
- South and including Stapleton Hall Road.
Basically it is to introduce a 20 mph speed limit for the area and to use speed bumps, raised junctions etc to enforce it.
I'm very much in agreement with it, but if they are saying this is a residential area shouldn't they also do something about the number of lorries who use these roads as well ( particularly London Waste ).
Perhaps a weight limit should be added to the signs as well?
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I have cracks in my walls which have appeared since the speed bumps/limit was introduced.
It is good for cyclists and especially for kids making it safer
SatNav/GPS speed-limiting is the way forward.
When all's said and done, Haringey like these 'public consulatation' exercises, when in actual fact , it's already a given.
For me, who lived in Florence Road from 1945-1953, a road just like Victoria Road, it is unbelievable that there can be such problems. During those years there was only ONE car parked on the road. (I live abroad so haven't seen Victoria Road for donkey's years).
And now? What can be done, what are the suggestions? who has any idea to solve such problems. Where's the answer to this misery?
But here in CH we don't have much of a problem with parking and roads aren't cluttered with stationary cars. Why, well, this is because about thirty years ago it became law that every new lived-in unit (house, flat, etc.,) had to have at least one off-road parking space and that for a given number of rented parking spaces (decided upon at the time of issue of the building permit) a certain number of visitors' spaces. Spaces that are regularly controlled. Most parking spaces today are underground and don't cause gardens or green areas to suffer.
In general this works well, there are a few exceptions but solutions are continually on hand.
Just one more thing. The number plate of the car you drive here doesn't belong to the car but to you. I've had my number plate for 39 years (not the same plate but the same number of course). Result: all cars are insured, the police can check over the internet to whom the car belongs, and one number plate (front and back) can be used for two or more cars. Simple really. If you don't pay your insurance the insurance company notifies the licensing authority and they request that you send the plates back - if you don't a nice policeman will come along and collect them from you.
Obviously such a solution with parking spaces wouldn't solve the long-term problem of Victoria Road but building underground parks everywhere would. They have proved to be a good investment.