3 November (Part 1) - Bay watching
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Belvedere Road came an offer to rescue me from the current news vacuum.
Bexley council has been renovating the footpaths and sure enough
the square slabs had been replaced with asphalt as is the modern rather ugly way.
The road is blessed with on-pavement parking bays so beloved of Bexley council
for their ability to confuse visitors
although to be fair I saw nothing obviously wrong with the newly painted white lines. However the complaint that
tempted me to Belvedere Road was the total lack of imagination on display.
As the photographs show, some of the parking bays are quite long, easily taking three
cars and possibly four, so why didn't Bexley council do the job properly while
replacing the kerb stones and cementing them back into place? If they had done
so there would be no need for drivers to wreck their tyres by driving up
a kerb. If the end bays are already occupied the middle ones can be accessed in
no other way. Why did they not simply construct small recessed bays? The cost of
placing the new kerb stones a couple of feet from the originals must be
insignificant when undertaking a major pavement reconstruction.
Thanks to the road management skills of Mike Frizoni (Deputy Director, Public
Realm Management) the residents of Belvedere Road are unnecessarily made to risk blowouts and forced to go to
SETyres more often than they would wish.