There will be a Places Scrutiny meeting on Tuesday which may be reported here on Wednesday
but we are unlikely to hear anything about the state of Bexley’s roads. Potholes
possibly, idiotic design; no chance!
Following a couple of blog posts spelling out
the dangers designed into our
roads by the idiots in Council and the idiots who use them, a driving instructor
contacted me to add weight to my complaints. Pedestrians dressed in black,
cyclists overtaking traffic queues by being in the middle of the road with no
lights against a background of LED headlights, drivers who rarely indicate their
direction, defective car lighting, pinch points in roads that have existed for years that could be
corrected in a day, etc. etc.
Yesterday evening something was going on in Sidcup because buses were using The
Green again. Before that I was in a queue from Cleeve Park School to the
single-tracked with passing places Rectory Lane because
cars trying to enter and exit it were grid-locked and holding up through
traffic. Very few of those idiots need to access property in Rectory Lane, Is there any?
One thing I learned from the driving instructor - I should have thought of it
before - is that the multitude of near invisible Keep Left signs are invisible
not because the reflectors are covered in dirt but because they are of the
older illuminated design and the lamps failed years ago - and Bexley Council doesn’t care.
Or is perhaps even more stony-broke than we thought.
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The other topic which filled the postbag - well two contacts actually - followed
up on
@tonyofsidcup's failure to get into the reopened Sidcup cinema using his old Storyteller membership card.
I do not know what complex arrangements are in place that prevents flashing the
old card at the box office for free or discounted admission but whatever it is
the management insists on a rigmarole. Both correspondents reported the same
thing. Go to cinema, find a manager, show proof of payment for Storyteller
membership and get a new card.
One reported taking in two friends, one definitely free and the other one discounted I think. Two free
entries per member per performance are permitted. She sat with her friends and
two other people and came out thoroughly depressed. Not at how few people were
present and how the long term viability of the cinema might be affected, but
because she thought the Shakespearian Hamnet was far from being a bundle of laughs.