1 September - Felixstowe Road. Crossrail taking over
I
had expected to see rather more heavy machinery parked in the Felixstowe Road
car park by now but there are still two weeks to go before work is due to commence
on the temporary station leading to the demolition of the 28 year old one.
It’s going to be a very big job, sooner or later the existing tracks will
have to be realigned to allow for two island platforms and you can’t put a kink
in a railway track so there will presumably have to be a very gradual migration
of the tracks towards the south extending half way to Belvedere and the
same towards Plumstead.
How that can be done without extended suspension of the service I have no idea,
but then I am not a railway engineer. But my grandfather was - for the Southern Mahratta,
Bengal Nagpur and Rajputana-Malwa railway companies circa 1890.
The Lesnes Abbey Labour Party has been sending out a questionnaire to nearby residents. It asks…
• Are you in favour of Crossrail coming to Abbey Wood? (Yes)
• Has Bexley asked you about their proposed car parking changes? (No)
• Do you support the extension of the current CPZ? (Not sure. Let’s wait to
see what happens. Then if necessary residents must be very clearly told about the
charges which Bexley council currently levies at an illegally high rate.)
My
answers in parenthesis. Yours may be sent to yourviews at lesnesabbey.org.uk
if you feel strongly about the issue. Remove spaces and insert @ obviously.
A pity that “The listening council” has done nothing but
slap a £3.80 a day charge
on what used to be residents’ parking bays.
If you have read this far you may have an interest in this forgotten outpost of
the borough of Bexley, in which case the imminent loss of the Post Office
building might concern you. Greenwich council is due to
consider plans for flats on the site and comments must be in by next Tuesday. They will only be interested in the
flats, not the closure of the Post Office.
The Public Toilets are going too. Where will the graffiti artists go now?
Bexley council is still happily accepting a ‘bomb site’ on the opposite corner having rejected plans
for flats there. They prefer the rats.