After pressure from Lib Dem councillor Laura Edge, Haringey is to extend double yellow lines on Weston Park.

The news follows complaints from residents that the present parking restrictions were causing problems and damage to traffic islands on the W5 bus route.

Cllr Laura Edge (Lib Dem, Stroud Green) says that the badly designed yellow lines on junctions along the route, designed to help the bus, have had the opposite effect. Painted too short near the traffic islands, the bus is often unable to pass. Time and again, the traffic bollards in the centre of the road have been demolished by buses and vans who drive right through them in order to pass, leaving the bollards regularly littering the street. Worse, some vehicles often drive round the bollards in the face of oncoming traffic to pass.

Cllr Laura Edge comments:

“The previous restrictions were woefully inadequate and I hope that the changes will solve the problem at the Ferme Park Road junction.

“However, there are problems elsewhere along the road. I will be watching to see if these changes lead to an improvement.”