26 November (Part 2) - Proud of themselves?
Does
Andrew Bashford swell with pride every time he sees buses queuing in Belvedere awaiting a chance
to squeeze by another coming in the opposite direction? Does Vinney Rey get
a thrill from seeing the problems at
Ruxley Roundabout caused by its design not being up to the job or a kick from
preventing a resident in Blackfen from driving into his own garage because Rey put
a
traffic island in a silly place? Does Aurang Zeb rejoice at the traffic
queues he created in
Penhill Road? Maybe.
Bexley council seems to have particular problems with traffic islands, the
vehicle blocking one in Blackfen is not unique.
Those near bus stops
often do the same whenever a bus stops and a new island in Bellegrove Road had to be
redesigned immediately after it was installed because it blocked the right hand exit from Hill View Road. (Larger
Before and
After photographs.)
But that wasn’t enough. Moving and redesigning that Bellegrove Road traffic island to
allow traffic to turn right out of Hill View Road made it too small to be a
practical pedestrian refuge so it is all change again. Good to see we are getting
our money’s worth out of that £4 million Parsons Brinckerhoff contract.
The island is to be elongated with a gap in the middle for pushchairs and the
like. Why didn’t they do that in the first place?
Note: From information supplied by a Welling resident.