The Impact of Traffic

These before and after pictures show how much the public space round Archway has been squeezed to make way for motor vehicles, making it a lot less comfortable for people to move around.

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Examples here are the top of Holloway Road, Dartmouth Park Hill and the Archway Road from Archway Bridge.  

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2014 photos copyright Robin Stoker

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Rather different is what has happened to the old A1 to the east of the Archway Tavern. Relatively busy in the two older photographs, despite the 2016/17 pedestrianisation the space appears to continue blighted by the impact of the Archway Tower (renamed Vantage Point), even as seen here, in the height of a summer morning. 

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