The actual park itself that is.
Haringey, the Local Authority which holds the park in trust for the public, is conducting a survey about access to the park. You can provide a set of answers to the questions thay have chosen to ask on Commonplace.
Approaching from the Woodberry Down direction we have to cross what is quite a big, busy crossroads, a tricky obstacle in its own right, to be faced with a forbidding wall, built of brick and approaching 30m wide. Access is possible through 2 carriage and 2 pedestrian gates, though the two carriage gates are always locked. The pedestrian gates are just wide enough for a bike or a scooter. Often, someone has to give way to allow another to pass. (The image from Google maps)
So Haringey's survey is looking for comments like this, and perhaps a suggestion that cyclists and pedestrians can be segregated at this entrance.
I'd urge you to make your comments in response to the Haringey / Sustrans Finsbury Park Boundaries Commonplace questionnaire. If you don't, how else will they know what you think?
There is also more information available on the Finsbury Park Improvements project on the web.
I went to a recent meeting about the project inside the park in the meeting room at the Track and Gym. You can read the notes of the meeting in the attached documents
20230718 Finsbury Park Stakeholder meeting report.pdf
20230718 Stakeholder mee ting mapping exercise comments.pdf
I took part in the mapping exercise and the group I was with produced an wide ranging set of comments.
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