3 December - Every day sees a new traffic calamity in Bexley, South East London’s centre for road idiocy
Bexleyְ’s
cretinous Head of Highways has authorised Thames Water to close Brampton Road at
a point just south of the King Harold’s Way/Okehampton Crescent roundabout.
It is in exactly the same place that Thames Water
caused chaos for a week in April last year. Obviously yet another case of
Thames Water doing a bad repair job in the first place.
Bexley Council must have known that Greenwich Council had closed the road north
of that junction and it wasn’t due to reopen until next Friday. Everyone who
drives around the borough must know that Bexley Council is run by lunatics with no shame. Most
of all I pity the bus drivers who have had to learn yet another diversionary route. (†)
Fortunately Greenwich finished
resurfacing their section of the road a
couple of days early. I was optimistic that I might just once have a diversion
free journey to Bromley on Friday - but I had forgotten that Sidcup High Street has been dug up too.
On Monday I considered a big diversion via Bexley Village
to avoid the 25 minute hold up that occurs around Cleeve Park School, that well
known academy for legless children. Maybe it is as well that I didn’t head off to Bexley because the
village was closed by gas works. Again.
† A friend told me this morning that he was on a diverted bus that took the wrong
turning after which the driver simply didn’t know where to go. A passenger had to stand
at the front and guide him towards his destination.