19 December - Bexley Council. Incompetent or malicious?
Why
is Sidcup so uniquely punished by road works? It is more than 20 years since I
took my son there to look at the traffic chaos. He was at the time employed by
the Transport Research Laboratory and now advises on safety issues worldwide;
China last month, the EU this and the USA in January. He said whoever designed and
approved Elm Road was either incompetent or malicious.
My recollection is that Elm Road was one traffic light after another and they
were taken away once the incompetence was proven beyond doubt.
The High Street was
revamped in 2014
with fancy pale blocks which soon looked grubby and collapsed under
the weight of traffic. Designed by clowns according to someone whose job it is
to try to fix them.
The High Street was resurfaced
fewer than two months ago and immediately afterwards its junction with
Station Road/Elm Road was dug up again. It was being dug up again this morning causing
tail backs to the hospital.
Next month,
as first noted in October, Thames Water is going to bring Sidcup to a halt again for 16 months.
This morning I spotted yet another sign at the end of The Green announcing
another High Street closure on or from (I was driving and didn’t get to read it all) 5th January.
P.S. And at 6 a.m. 20th December the radio has just
announced that Elm Road is closed completely.
According to a notice posted by Sidcup BID the High Street will be closed from
Monday 5th to January 17th from 21:00 to 04:00. So not too bad.