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News and Comment October 2023

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5 October (Part 1) - They built a railway to Abbey Wood? We never saw that coming

Wow! We even went to the trouble of narrowing the station access and exit roads too!
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The clown driving LR69 VOB (Photo 1) thought it was a good idea to overtake the long line of traffic in Abbey Road. A head on collision was only narrowly averted.
A bus attempts to negotiate the New Road junction which Bexley Council carefully reconstructed to make that manoeuvre as difficult as possible.

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The traffic queue extends up Knee Hill towards Brampton Road.

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The impatient clown in the white MG BF70 HZE (Photo 1 above) undertook the line of cars by driving on the footpath.
The selfish drivers of FE67 XPJ, CN13 WDP and LW19 EFM effectively reduced the flyover width from two lanes to one.

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All photographs presented in chronological sequence and taken between 18:04 and 18:25 4th October 2023.

Two people standing around commented on the chaos. One lived in Sevenoaks but had driven to his parents’ home in Bexleyheath. He was waiting for them to pick him up. The second, desperate to use the public toilet which Greenwich Council has thoughtfully closed, had driven in from Dartford to pick up his daughter who was stuck on a train somewhere. (I took him to an alternative toilet.)

 

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