9 June - Council drip believes in drip drip
Not
a week goes by without a cash strapped Bexley council attacking residents’
pockets. Sometimes it is withdrawal of a service or benefit like opting out of
the Open House Weekend
but their favourite is the steady advance of parking restrictions and with it
the opportunity to levy charges and issue fines.
Last week Bexley council announced the installation of more double yellow lines in 22 roads across the borough and
single yellow lines in seven more.
Presumably
Mike Frizoni who is a Deputy Director in the ironically tagged
Department of Wellbeing has been charged with raising as much of his
£130,998 salary and pension package from motorists as possible. Bellegrove Road,
Welling and Welling Way (the wide road that runs from Bellegrove Road to
Rochester Way) have been mercifully free of parking restrictions, but not any
more. Frizoni has spoken.
First he marked out parking bays along the entire length of the roads (Photo 1) ,
then he realised that encouraging parking across dropped kerbs was not too
clever (Photo 2) and one can only guess that appropriate signage will go up next.
Finally it will be added to the parking gestapo’s itinery. Eventually residents
will pay the stealth tax.
Note: Pictures and story from a Welling reader.