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Without proper, large scale, joined up plans covering whole boroughs it's likely that this will continue to be an issue. However, those plans are likely to take a long, long time to happen (particularly in boroughs like Haringey where there is minimal political will to do anything) whereas small scale plans can sometimes be pushed through fairly quickly. It's a dilemma.
You've got to start somewhere ... The alternative is doing nothing. If we want things to improve then things will have to get worse in the short term. An initial piecemeal arrangement will eventually be a broad implementation.
Between Hackney and Islington an area from Hackney fields to Angel, and hopefully Cally Rd soon enough will be covered
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The trouble with a lot of these things, and I'm seeing it in my area too, is that they are piecemeal schemes with a lot of sorting out the traffic in one area but without huge consideration re: where it's going and how it impacts the other areas nearby.
Without a joined up approach you have little cells trying to get the best for their area and the problem just being shunted off elsewhere. You will get some traffic disappearing but probably not all of the extra traffic.
There's the extra issue that a lot of these schemes are pushed by active resident's associations, etc and these are often in wealthier areas with a higher number of homeowners.
There's something akin to that going on near me at the moment with plans in Crouch End to minimise traffic that will likely push traffic further east to the less wealthy areas in the borough.
Without proper, large scale, joined up plans covering whole boroughs it's likely that this will continue to be an issue. However, those plans are likely to take a long, long time to happen (particularly in boroughs like Haringey where there is minimal political will to do anything) whereas small scale plans can sometimes be pushed through fairly quickly. It's a dilemma.