Red route parking restrictions under review

Archway's small businesses are pleased about Transport for London's decision to review a ban on parking after 4pm on Archway Road. Business leaders say a lift on the parking ban will increase trade at Archway's shops, restaurants and cafes.

Hornsey and Wood Green MP Lynne Featherstone has been campaigning on the issue on behalf of local shopkeepers. "There is no need for there to be a cut off at 4pm on the side that

bears the traffic load in the morning going into town - not in the

afternoon when there is virtually no traffic at all," she wrote in her blog.Featherstone submitted a "strong letter" to Mayor Boris Johnson, and now

Transport

for London has now to review traffic flow along the red route. Local shopkeepers hope that lifting parking restrictions on alternate sides of the road at each end of the day will help trade without causing traffic problems.

"A £60 penalty charge is pretty heavy duty punishment for shopping in

your local shops - so people are changing their shopping habits," adds Featherstone. "These

little parades of shops are vital for people living in the area - let

alone the jobs they provide for local people."