The unusual site banners are to bring attention to the fact that Labour activists in Bexley are manipulating Facebook Groups with fictional posters. They deny it, threaten police action for ‘harassing’ a fictitious character and then demonstrate their willingness to impersonate by creating a false Administrator account in my name. The banner on display is chosen randomly from a selection of three, with a fourth bearing the familiar Bexley Council is Bonkers logo.
17 February (Part 1) - Impressive imagination
I suppose I shouldn’t rise to the bait, but anonymous emails are
extraordinarily frustrating. If readers dissent with what is written here
why, metaphorically speaking, lob a brick and run for it? Even more annoying are
those who entirely miss the point or misunderstand it.
“Why” - referring to ‘Broadway
- very literally’ - “am I so against widening pavements” asked someone
yesterday evening. It was news to me. I have expressed the hope that the
workmanship is of a higher standard than that imposed on Orpington. I have
surmised that the more acute bend outside ASDA is designed to slow traffic, and
I fail to see why diverted traffic is sent around an anti-clockwise
circle during the construction period, but I see absolutely nothing to criticise in the
scheme itself. It was described as “impressive”
when first announced.
When correspondents wrote predicting an increase in the rate of pedestrian
accidents I replied that a friend who once worked for the Transport Research
Laboratory studying the effects of such shared space schemes, told me that
if well designed the new Broadway should not be a problem.
In any case, if nothing is ever changed the whole place will get to look tatty -
and surely the western end of Broadway already was.