LTN objections need to be sent to Traffic.Orders@haringey.gov.uk

To whom it may concern:

 I wish to object as person who lives or works in Haringey.

This scheme should not be made permanent.

Clean air for all - not the privileged few: I appreciate clean and fresh air as much as anyone. However, the St Ann's LTN has diverted an insane amount of traffic onto Green Lanes and Seven Sisters, which is home to thousands of our less-advantaged residents. Buses now routinely take up to an hour to pass through half-a-dozen stops on Green Lanes. There is gridlock everywhere. Seven Sisters is congested even for buses and cyclists during the evening peak travel times.  The emergency services are being hampered by congestion. And I do not believe cyclists' safety has been remotely improved. The air is most definitely poorer as a result.

A disgusting and unjustifiable experiment on the poor and vulnerable. These schemes may be popular with the wealthier, generally white, generally better-educated people who can afford to buy homes in the sidestreets which make up the LTN, but the EFFECTS are felt most by those living and working on main roads like Green Lanes itself. These tend to be more marginalised, and less advantaged people : it is poor, disabled, unpaid carers, less-educated, BAME and elderly residents who are bearing most of the brunt of this LTN. Many have English as a second language. Many are less able or confident to speak out against it. Who speaks for them? Is Haringey operating a policy where those who shout loudest are obeyed? It is so wrong on many levels. Those who are already the wealthiest in our community should not be able to turn their public roads into quasi-private roads by getting them placed within an LTN. Their property prices rise, while the lung health of the poor declines. Shunting traffic and fumes onto the poor isn't right. And it's certainly not green or progressive.

You are adding further restrictive administration and unwarranted intrusion to the barriers to access disabled people already face.

• Restrictive admin: Blue Badges are awarded to people with high mobility issues, broadly because you can’t walk more than 50 metres, so why are no Blue Badge holder given an immediate and automatic exemption, adding a further unnecessarily burdensome administration to disabled people who will have already had to go through long and multi-stepped process to get the badge in the first place (Diagnosis, application for certain benefits, application for blue bade, application for blue badge bay, application for designated permit blue badge bay plus the admin related to getting a Motobility Vehicle).
• Barriers to movement: We have to tell you about our journeys through more than one Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and apply for permission to move through them. You want to know about the specific start and ends points (full postcode), roads driven through and previously driven through, days, times, frequency, filters, medical conditions, impact on driving, an explanation on why you require access. You MUST exaplin why you health will be adversely impacted. FOR EVERY JOURNEY

Please register my objections to this scheme being made permanent.