12 October (Part 2) - Piss off v Rip off
The brainless neo-Communist bastards who run Greenwich Council have just added ten minutes to my journey to East Ham.
Within the past week they have installed a bus lane that extends from Woolwich
to Greenwich thereby halving the road capacity. This is in addition to the few
minutes added by the imposition of an unwarranted 20 m.p.h. limit along part of
that route a month ago.
Just after midnight today after being held on a red light I used the instant
torque of my electric vehicle to ensure I was first in the queue as we entered
the unnecessarily narrow road and set the speed limit to 23 m.p.h. which the GPS
says in reality is only 20. The queue behind was not happy and the more impatient
drivers demonstrated their rage by zooming past on the inside. I don’t really
blame them, after all the avowed intention of Greenwich Council road planners is
“to piss off as many motorists as possible”. I know that because some years ago I met one of their
road planners at a social function, friend of a friend, and that is what he said.
Pissed off motorists are not the safest of drivers but it would require a fully
functioning brain to recognise that fact.
Bexley residents should not gloat, Bexley’s ambition is not ‘Piss off’ but ‘Rip
off’. They are going to install nine more automated camera monitors across the
borough in the hope of punishing motorists with 7,200 extra PCNs a year and adding
around half a million pounds a year to Bexley’s ill-gotten gains.
Bexley Councillors will not be happy until Bexley becomes as big a s**t hole as the more obviously red boroughs.
As well as the nine new sites to be equipped with the spy-cams so beloved of
Bexley’s money grabbing bastards will be a series of cameras along Harrow
Manorway to enforce the halving of that road’s capacity. The Council papers on
the subject say that the intention is to reduce bus journey times on Harrow
Manorway. As everyone who uses that route will know there is no scope for
speeding up buses on Harrow Manorway because nothing impedes their progress apart from their
on-board speed limiters. It is a lie worthy of
Councillor Craske in his heyday.
Bexley Council is on the lookout for more sites where it can install unnecessary
bus lanes. Like all Councillors red and pink alike, none have the slightest clue
of the impact on the economy of traffic gridlock.
Councillors had almost nothing to say about the latest of many attacks on motorists in Bexley.
Councillor Richard Diment (Conservative, Sidcup) thought the public will need
some convincing that it is not just another cynical money raising exercise.
Neo-communist. Noun. “A proponent or adherent of a new or
revived form of communism, especially a form adapted to address local or
contemporary conditions and issues; a member of an organization supporting such
an ideology”.