28 August (Part 1) - Pillaging Peter
A reader from
Petts Wood
has taken issue with my report that parking there costs only 30 pence an hour, she says
that a quick visit to a shop using the street bays costs only 20 pence. The cheapest parking
I can find anywhere in the borough of Bexley is 50 pence for half an hour. Hands up everyone
who thinks councillors Peter Craske and Linda Bailey have been lying again.
Tomorrow is a Bank Holiday. According to Bexley council’s website their car
parks will be free. Their on-street pay and display parking bays are said to be
operative Monday to Saturday (†) with no exemptions shown for Bank Holidays and for
parking meters their website gives no clues at all. Confusing eh? I expect that
is the general idea. It will be safer to shop outside the borough. Maybe the
meters themselves make things clearer, though the new
pay by phone notices don’t.
However if the phone system works correctly it won’t let you pay when you need
not, so the best bet there if you are one of the “almost 200” motorists so far registered
on the system, is to try to pay and see if you get blocked.
Things were so much easier before Craske was allowed to rape and pillage the borough.
† Bellgrove Parade, Welling, Monday to Friday.
Starting times vary across the borough, 8:00, 8:30 and 9:00. Finish times also
vary. 5:30, 6:30 and 7:00. Parking for councillors and some council employees is
free in designated Bexleyheath car parks.