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Palmers Green station: how step-free access will be provided - posted by Colin Younger
14 Mar 2025
Look at the history of this. It's not going to happen.
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Palmers Green station: how step-free access will be provided - posted by Alex L
14 Mar 2025
I chased up Network rail earlier this month out of curiosity given the project seems to be the most complex engineering project in history given progress. The update wasn't good news: 'I am sorry I am unable to provide you[…]
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TfL taking over Great Northern(?) - posted by Karl Brown
13 Mar 2025
Agree, minimum 3 per hour off-peak, ideally back to pre-Covid's 4, and a dream result of the once-claimed objective of 6. Separately, I remain baffled by TfL's refusal to include our train line, and several equivalents, on their transport in[…]
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TfL taking over Great Northern(?) - posted by Neil Littman
13 Mar 2025
I have been using the line regularly since I moved to the area in 2014 and it is a very useful route. Initially, I was commuting to work most days but since the pandemic have worked from home and use[…]
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TfL taking over Great Northern(?) - posted by Julius
13 Mar 2025
Thanks, Basil, for this comprehensive and, dare I say, slightly optimistic overview/answer.
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TfL taking over Great Northern(?) - posted by Basil Clarke
12 Mar 2025
Straightforward questions, but no straightforward answers. I'll do my best to introduce Julius and other recent arrivals about the recent troubled history of our trains services, but I'm sure others will have things to add. First, my brief answers to[…]
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As a woman, do you feel safe in Southgate town centre? Join the Safer Neighbourhood Team for a Walk, Talk and Do initiative - posted by Neil Littman
7 Mar 2025
I think it is interesting that this post doesn't say why we got to this situation of needing the survey in the first place. It is a bit of an 'elephant in the room' and understand fully why this has[…]
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Palmers Green station: how step-free access will be provided - posted by Julius
6 Mar 2025
What happened to this proposal?
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TfL taking over Great Northern(?) - posted by Julius
6 Mar 2025
Thanks for sharing the following story in PG Community Newsletter: . I'm new to Palmers Green and likely to use the train from its station regularly. To me, it seems like good news that trains stopping at our station will be[…]
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As a woman, do you feel safe in Southgate town centre? Join the Safer Neighbourhood Team for a Walk, Talk and Do initiative
5 Mar 2025
[Original article] Article not displaying properly? Click here The Southgate Ward Safer Neighbourhood Team, together with the council's Journeys and Places Team and the Met Police, are running an event on 14th March to find out women's feelings about their[…]
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Barney and his bridge - posted by Basil Clarke
3 Mar 2025
Nice report on the Enfield Dispatch website from this afternoon's dedication of Barney's Bridge: Beloved cat immortalised as ‘Barney’s Bridge’ unveiled in Enfield Town Believe it or not, the previous story posted to the Dispatch website was about a dog![…]
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Barney and his bridge - posted by Basil Clarke
27 Feb 2025
[Original article] Article not displaying properly? Click here When I set up the subject tags for this website, there was one that never crossed my mind - "Local pets". However, my subject today is a cat. As I'm expecting this[…]
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Previous Lloyds Bank site change to Adult Gaming Centre - Appeal - posted by Karl Brown
26 Feb 2025
Tuesday 25th February was the date of the appeal against our council refusing planning permission for the change of use of the previous Lloyds Bank site to an Adult Gaming Centre (AGC). The history is well documented on the PGC[…]
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No reprieve for three local libraries
20 Feb 2025
There's more about the revised library closure plans on the Enfield Dispatch website.
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No reprieve for three local libraries
18 Feb 2025
[Original article] Article not displaying properly? Click here A revised draft of the Enfield Council Library Strategy has seen only one library removed from the list of proposed cuts. Winchmore Hill, Southgate and Bowes Road are still faced with closure,[…]
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Council committee debates quieter neighbourhood residents' petition to allow them to drive past filter point - posted by Geoffrey Kemball-Cook
15 Feb 2025
Thanks Mark for another very interesting post. Can I take issue? I can't agree your point 1, regarding it as unreasonable that Bowes LTN residents should not hope for better access than via the N Circ, on the grounds that[…]
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Council committee debates quieter neighbourhood residents' petition to allow them to drive past filter point - posted by Mark Hawkins-Dady
13 Feb 2025
In the context of David’s post, it is understandable that long-time activists against low-traffic initiatives would back the petition, for they will have a clear-eyed view of it as a vehicle to challenge an LTN. But – as I have[…]
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Council committee debates quieter neighbourhood residents' petition to allow them to drive past filter point - posted by Geoffrey Kemball-Cook
13 Feb 2025
Having responded to Mark, a quick response to David Beadle, if I may. I don't know whether David has the benefit of being in an LTN. David writes "And the petition (and many public consultations) make it very clear that[…]
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Council committee debates quieter neighbourhood residents' petition to allow them to drive past filter point - posted by Geoffrey Kemball-Cook
13 Feb 2025
I welcome Mark's comments, as a fellow resident and car-owner in the Bowes LTN. It is very important that views both for and against a suggested change are heard. Almost by definition, any change affecting some thousands of people will[…]
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Council committee debates quieter neighbourhood residents' petition to allow them to drive past filter point - posted by David Beadle
13 Feb 2025
They do so understand what an LTN is, and this one and many others have very conspicuously failed to incentivise any switch from private car to more sustainable travel modes: you only have to look at the multiple large cars[…]
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