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although I definitely feel traffic-reduction has got to be a move worth considering, until that actually happens none of options 2, 3 or 4 sound that appealing to me!
Yes, the issue is that it has to be done everywhere consistently or you just end up pushing through motor traffic into other areas, usually to travel more orbitally. The big if in London is simply whether economic development, the primary cause of trip concentration and distribution, can be 'evened out' more, that is, whether the only, and fairly silly, reason why we engineer every junction for the over-concentrated morning peak hour, when most people go into Central London before they come back in the evening, can be mad redundant, so that people are able to travel shorter distances more locally and by better modes. Interestingly, greater densification of a city should make that possible--if, and it's a big if, the powerful interests that make a city attractive don't insist on further over-development of the city's core (obviously, they usually do).
The thing is that once you've started the filtering process in one area, usually the one affected the worst, it becomes easier to make the case for spreading the application (as the next worst-affected area is done, and so on).
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Oliver Schick
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I live just north of WR, and can completely see why the road's residents wanted the closure to remain after the bridge work was completed. Having said that, the knock-on effect to the roads from Crouch End across to Green Lanes made the whole area horrendous and although I definitely feel traffic-reduction has got to be a move worth considering, until that actually happens none of options 2, 3 or 4 sound that appealing to me!