14 September (Part 1) - Bexley council. Mad as a paint brush
Yesterday
I was
looking for examples of clearly marked parking bays
but all I got was a couple of particularly confusing ones. From the south of the borough came
pictures of an unwanted ‘Disabled Bay’ within a Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) which
has been replaced by a yellow line. The sensible thing would have been to erase
the ‘Disabled’ marking from the road, remove the pole and sign that stood by it,
all of which has been done, and allow the space to revert to one for general use
by those who pay £100 a year for Residents’ Permits. But no; in goes a single yellow line with no
indication of what restrictions apply so no one knows what to do.
From the north comes something close to a mirror image of that situation.
There used to be a line of Residents’ Parking bays here but after some road works
obliterated the lot they were replaced but the one at the end was never marked
out. So again no one knows what to do. There are no signs to indicate parking is
not allowed but no one can afford to take the risk.
While
on the subject of crazy road markings in Bexley, I rather like this one. The bus stop bay
is long enough to be Heathrow’s third runway - it extends to
the car in the background - but the bus stop
pole itself lies outside it. A rare case of it being entirely legal to park at a
Bexley bus stop.