Highgate Hill crash spot

The early hours of this morning saw yet another car crashing into the Highgate Hill traffic lights. When will the authorities do something to make this road – and other Highgate accident hot spots – safer? This is the scene that greeted us this morning: I...
Heavy lorries damaging The Bank

Heavy lorries damaging The Bank

Structural engineers have for some time been recommending that there needs to be weight restrictions on The Bank on Highgate Hill and Haringey Council have agreed they should be imposed. Yet this has still not happened and these two trucks have been spotted in recent...
Road safety and speeds in Highgate

Road safety and speeds in Highgate

Road safety is important. There is a need to make street life safer and feel safer. If our streets are more appealing places to be more people will use them as pedestrians and cyclists, encouraging a greener and healthier lifestyle. Making progress on this is a...
Forum response to 271 consultation

Forum response to 271 consultation

The Forum offers its strong support for moving the 271 terminus to North Road as set out in the proposed a scheme – https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/buses/route-271 Our aims have been to: • Improve bus interconnections, and facilitate east-west journeys •...
Putting bins away

Putting bins away

Do your bins get put back in the garden after the refuse collector has emptied them? Not everywhere they don’t! According to the Haringey website the expected practice is clear enough. “The evening before collection day, please: Put your wheelie bin as...
271 terminus chaos – in pictures

271 terminus chaos – in pictures

Another forum blog explains the logic behind the TfL proposal to change the 271 terminus location, which is being consulted on until 13 March. Here we just wanted to share some images that demonstrate the problems that can arise near the turnaround and cause...