25 November (Part 2) - A Bexleyheath bust up
It
was about time I looked around a part of the borough other than the north so I
took the B11 bus to Bexleyheath. It was delayed by road works at the junction of
Long Lane and Brampton Road but the bus stop was closed so I couldn’t get off to
see what the reason might be.
Reports say that it caused a 20 minute delay
yesterday evening but at 1 p.m. it couldn’t
have been more than five minutes.
Once in Bexleyheath I saw that the newly relaid Arnsberg Way which
broke up under
the weight of passing traffic in the summer was in trouble again.
It may not look too bad in Photo 1 but a 3D
photograph would have shown a significant depression. Click to enlarge.
The original BiB report
was raised in council and cabinet member for Public Realm, Don Massey, swung
into action and disrupted Arnsberg Road for a week while the new block road was
repaired. At no cost to the public purse he said.
Sadly the junctions at Woolwich Road and Chapel Road, both of which carry a lot
of bus traffic, are breaking up again.
Click here for Bexley council’s web announcement. It probably won’t be there
for much longer or maybe they will just change its date.