12 May (Part 5) - Lying bastards
Whether
Bexley’s Highways are the biggest bastards or the biggest liars is
open to debate. Telling me in 2009 that they designed roads to Transport
Research Laboratory standards when It was my own son who was the senior
consultant in the TRL Department that issued the guidance and who said their
designs were nowhere near to conforming, must rank among the
silliest or unluckiest of lies ever, but they could be bastards too.
When residents of Blackfen Road were advised that the Council planned to
install an extra pedestrian refuge in the hope that it might reduce average
traffic speed by 2 m.p.h. they pointed out that not placing
it centrally in the road would leave the carriageway barely wide enough for a
bus but also not give them sufficient room to turn into their own drives and
across the dropped kerbs they had paid for.
Bexley Council did it anyway.