21 May (Part 1) - Weekend miscellany
The old weekend standby of what is going on in Lesnes Abbey Park and on the railway
line at Abbey Wood is a bit of a let down. Nothing discernible has happened in the park
and it has been pretty quiet at the station today despite the inconvenience of a Replacement Bus Service.
Meanwhile the parking restriction notices get ever sillier.
Parking restrictions - Confusing and unnecessary
The week long
parking restrictions in Fendyke Road, Belvedere, proved to be every
bit as stupid as expected. A hole never was dug on the site of the parking bays,
in fact there never was a hole in the road anywhere. For a few days there was a small hole in
someone’s drive following a building extension and an excess of
plastic barriers were stored in the road, but not in or even adjacent to the parking bays.
In the expanded version of Photo 1 (click it) you can just see the yellow restriction sign
in the distance. There is no new tarmac anywhere.
However that didn’t stop Bexley Council ticketing cars that it considered not to
be in the undefined Bay 1 out of three. (Local resident’s report.)
In place of the old warning sign a new one has appeared every bit as confusing as the
original.
It says “23/05/2016. 29/05/2016. Bays O/S 15 Florence Road Bays in Fendyke
Road UKPowerNet. No Parking at any time.”
It took me a little while to work out what it meant. Florence Road is the road
around the the nearby corner and O/S must mean outside.
Not exactly a model of clarity but probably that is the intention.
Bexley bridge
The
complaint from Bexley this week was not that the bridge is still half closed but the fact the car park is much the same.
Blocked and wrecked by contractors vehicles. I should be able to get some
pictures of the bridge works next Thursday. Those shown here are not mine.
Lesnes Abbey, full stop
I do like the look off much of the new Lesnes Abbey Park but as was the case last
weekend I can’t see much sign of progress. But they did cut the grass, not on
the Vistor Centre roof. On the ground where it should be.
The Visitor Centre (Photo 3 above) is still a mess and the Dipping Platform (Photo 4) has not progressed in at least two months.
No trains and little activity at Abbey Wood
It was a disappointingly
unexciting day at the Abbey Wood Crossrail site which was good because it allowed me to attend to other things.
Some concrete was pumped across the Dartford bound track and some big lumps of steel
lifted into position where one of the Crossrail tracks will hit the buffers.
Perhaps they are there to ensure it is strong enough.
Pictures of recent work.
The quiet patch with little to report is likely to continue, I doubt I will attend more than two Council Committee meetings between now and the end of June.
Thank goodness for the Masseys.