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Using Green Lanes to travel south and Wightman/Hornsey Park Road to go north is about the best compromise for commuting, as Sweaty suggests. People - myself included - do the Harringay leg regularly without indicent - it is just a bit of a ballache.
If you're based east of Green Lanes and looking to travel into the City then Hedge Lane and straight down the A10 is an option - about the same distance, but you're trading off the gauntlet of Green Lanes against some pretty fast roads as far as Tottenham. The Great Cambridge Road has bus lanes, though. I do the Tottenham - City bit of the A10 very frequently and it is a breeze.
Palmers Green to the west end can be done through Hornsey/Crouch End/Archway/Camden, but there is a whacking great hill, and Kentish Town Road is not much different to Green Lanes for trapping cyclists like fly paper at rush hour.