12 September (Part 1) - Going round in circles
The map above is how I believe Bexleyheath town centre’s road layout will look after
the new Tesco store is built. The difference between then and now is that
North/South traffic will no longer be able to go via Highland Road but will be
forced to take the detour via Gravel Hill. The impact of that on traffic to and
from the 2,000 pupil school in Woolwich Road when it meets Tesco’s customers in
Broadway and Albion Road should be interesting. There are already seven sets of
traffic lights over that short distance.
Tesco customers are to be presented with two ways into and out of their car
park. I pity those who have come from Bexley village and take the exit to
Broadway, there is no way back for them without circumnavigating the town.
Customers from Welling who use the Albion Road exit will have quite a problem
too. I suppose they will eventually learn the hard way but if you need to exit
town via Townley Road there is no simple answer. Bexley council never
could design a decent road layout, if it could this site wouldn’t exist. Does
Andrew Bashford still work at Bexley council?
By the time all this happens the council will have dragged all its staff in from
outlying offices to work in the refurbished Woolwich building at the eastern end
of Broadway. There surely will be a lot more congestion there than there is now.