How To promote walking, cycling, and tourism in Harrow

Walking

 Informative and entertaining signs about walking routes at Hatch End station. I would not walk alone through woods. Maybe public streets and remote paths at junctions should have help points, like railway stations. 

Guided Walks

Historic guided walks might attract people, eg passing Grimsdyke Hotel, along Grim's Dyke. Add photo selfie points and sculptures, arches, murals. 

How about a guided walk every weekend, council staff, student volunteers,  showing sites, and plaques including famous people along every high street. Hatch End had Mrs Beeton.  Pinner had Nelson's grand-daughter, has her grave in the nearby cemetery, and the coffin in the sky at the church, and Heath Robinson. 

Signs and Symbols

Have a cartoon or symbol for every high street. or a diamond enclosing silhouettes of four famous people or places.

Clean up the pavements and the facias. Copy Japan. Get every schoolchild and student cleaning their own school daily, and litter picking their own street, weeding, planting flowers. 

Have toilets at every station. Singapore has toilets outside every station. 

If you need funding, get businesses to sponsor, and carry ads for businesses around the walls, with a jolly mural on the outside. 

Use the waste water.  

Have a Harrow shop with souvenirs of Harrow, where walking tours start. Run a contest for Harrow's five favourite foods 

Run a campaign of people of the week. For example, Harrow beekeepers, Harrow honey (which I bought at the Headstone Manor Farm). 

Show a tourist bus map, linking Harrow School, Headstone Manor, Heath Robinson Museum. Have statues or murals of famous people, all the people who went to Harrow School, Mrs Beeton. St George's has friezes but so high most people don't notice them. 

Run a contest for poems and parodies of quotations about Harrow and display them. 

Pinner has a Pinner Fair. Why not a Harrow Fair. 

Tree Walks

Make a tree walk. Label all the trees, like Kew Gardens, name of plant, fruit, leaves, height. This is done in Singapore. If needed, get sponsors from local businesses or schools. Students can do the research. A small part of this is done near Headstone Manor. At one time trees in Hatch End high street has little notices at the base of a planted trees, placed their by the sponsor.

Roundabouts have sponsors. 

Every park should have a meeting point with a statue, clock and chairs. Maybe a pond with fish and ornamental plants. 

More parking spaces so you can stop briefly to buy a pint of milk, a gift of flowers, a sandwich, whatever. Not enough parking near Tesco in Hatch End.  More signs at bus stop of when the next bus is expected in Hatch End would make it more attractive to walk to the bus stop, rather than taking a car. 

Restaurants should display signs telling you car parks and bus routes.  People want to drive because loud music from restaurants and people on the pavements (in Hatch End late at night) can be frightening for safety, danger of drunks, pickpockets, people colliding with you. 

We need late night buses to Harrow. Many people want to use cars and park because friends have had phones stolen from motorbike phone snatchers at bus stops.