9 February - One narrow passageway and a bus every two minutes
My reference to not having a camera to hand when I saw
a car slam into
the front of a B11 on New Road,SE2, was picked up by someone who lives there.
The collision I witnessed dates from when only four buses an hour climbed New
Road but now we have up to 20 in each direction. We also have the
Elizabeth line attracting far more cars too. Not just cars passing through but
cars parking most of the day and all weekend because there is nothing to
stop them. Far from it, they are encouraged to do so by a Council that
charges £15 a day to use its car parks.
A recipe for chaos created by Bexley Council, as far too many of them are.
The New Road resident says that buses are frequently held up and in the worst
cases get physically hooked up on each other.
He has raised the issue with Councillors and Jeremy Fosten (Labour, Belvedere)
has promised to ask the Cabinet Member a question at the next Full Council
meeting on 4th March but I don’t think the retiring Cabinet Member ever had much
interest in fixing traffic problems and certainly not only a month before he retires.
New Road will remain a problem until someone grasps the nettle and widens and
straightens Knee Hill; the main route into Thamesmead. It is hard to drive up or
down it without mounting the low kerb at one point or another. The Cabinet
Member buried his head in the sand and was adamant that it would never be touched. Bexley needs reform
As
I said on 16th December, Bexley’s traffic problems would largely disappear if
parking on bus routes was severely restricted.
As can be seen in the photograph below, Abbey Wood station is no more than five
minutes walk away, closer than any of the tall buildings in the background.
