When did Bexley Council last sweep your road? I am not sure about my own but
I noted the accumulation of gravel from a deteriorating road surface before
nearby Carrill
Way was resurfaced in May and it has not moved since. When I drew it to the
attention of a Councillor on 28th June he said his road was much the same.
In mine the Council has a reasonable excuse although it is perhaps
self-created.
From Monday to Friday dawn to dusk the kerbside is fully occupied by Elizabeth line
commuters who are unwilling to pay £15 a day to park nearer the station.
Walking
there may however represent a health hazard;
last week I very nearly went base over apex at the station end of Fendyke Road because the
footpath was entirely covered by slippery fallen leaves. The drain gullies were completely blocked by them.
Bexley Council would rather pass its costs on to the NHS and
flooded householders than fulfill its own obligations.
Gayton Road, adjacent to the station, has not been swept in months either and the accumulated leaves there
have been pulped into some pretty decent compost for any enterprising gardener.
Perhaps this is an opportune
moment to display a photo of the concrete blocks
displaced from Felixstowe Road to Gayton Road where they have made the traffic
congestion even worse than it was before.
Bexley Council with typical lack of forethought made almost no provision for people
waiting to pick up passengers from the Elizabeth line trains and the result is
either a total blockage of two bus routes or footpath parking.
The latter has now been curtailed by placing a number of concrete blocks
such that if a car is parked alongside them a bus cannot get around the corner. Most
cars, but not all, now park on the opposite footpath.
This is exactly the sort of road planning one has come to expect of Bexley
Council. When they promote the man who lied to me about the reasons for
narrowing roads in contravention of official guidance to be Highways Manager it is all rather inevitable.
Yet another example of Bexley Council’s senior management having to be liars in order to climb the greasy pole.
Note: My son was Head of the Department that issued the
guidance so I was able to get expert confirmation that Bexley Council lied.