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Over the past two years, TfL have been ‘improving’ the North Circular Road at Bounds Green. About time. It was terrible for pretty much every road user; there have been plans to get this done for decades, and houses along the route had been compulsarily purchased and boarded up years ago.

Now it’s all ‘finished’, and we’re left with mostly dual carriageway throughout, but still with plenty of traffic lights, we’ve now got an attempt at a cycleway along the north side of the road - the sort that peters out at every bus stop, and doesn’t get priority over even the smallest side road.

We’ve still got the horrific traffic jams eastbound through the tunnels on Pinkham Way.

I’ve done an initial pass at remapping the area, with cycleway and crossings done. I think I’ve done all the blocked off roads and turn restrictions too.

Location: Bowes Park, Palmers Green, London Borough of Enfield, London, Greater London, England, N13 4SB, United Kingdom

Discussion

Comment from c2r on 9 May 2012 at 07:32

I drove through here a short while back, and yes, I do congratulate transport for London for what is the highways equivalent of moving the deckchairs on the titanic…. failure to actually achieve any real benefits for any group of road users while causing years of disruption in the process. Well done.

It’s a bit like their failure to improve the Redbridge Roundabout with free flowing sliproads from the M11 to the Eastway towards Stratford as part of the Olympics schemes.

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