5 September (Part 2) - Park wherever you like - almost
One of my neighbours made an amazing discovery overnight and is calling it a
traffic cone. Maybe he should patent the idea and sell it to Bexley Council who might then save taxpayers’ money by avoiding
partially abortive road painting
operations. As you can see in Photo 1, it successfully displaced the Moronic
driver (MR06 NEK) from his favourite blind corner but who nevertheless could not resist his trademark park 30 centimetres from the kerb trick
(Photo 2) in order to maximise difficulties for residents opposite trying to exit their drives.
These once quiet residential roads were not built with all day commuter parking
in mind and one day Bexley Council might wake up to that fact and install some single yellows with a time restriction.
Maybe in less than the 37 years it has taken to get the corners up to Highway Code standards.
The white Hyundai i10 driver (Photo 3, GD15 KCX) is a different sort of idiot. Who in their right mind would straddle a broken yellow
line when the legally required end marker is in place?
One well deserved PCN was issued.
Nose to kerb parking continues to create a problem (Photo 4) but Bexley Council says that marked bays would be unenforceable.
No one there is bright enough to see that they might encourage more considerate behaviour.
All photos taken today.
While walking with a Carrill Way resident in Lesnes Abbey
Park yesterday we bumped into the local enforcement officer taking a short
cut to New Road. We had been talking about the new yellow lines which he had
somehow not noticed. (To be fair his front door does not look in the right direction.)
He asked the CEO lady about builders working on his own house parking across
his own drive at his invitation. As I had already told him there is no problem with
that and it was confirmed, however she kindly went further than that and showed
me how her electronic gadget
brought up a list of protected driveways. My own house is the only
one in the whole of Coptefield Drive that has a registered dropped kerb where any
vehicle can be ticketed and none registered at all in Carrill Way.
Please don’t tell Moronic and his ilk that they can block any drive unprotected
by the new double yellows and Bexley Council will be entirely happy with the situation.
(And our useless Police will wrongly tell you it is a Council matter
as they did me three months ago.)