8 January - More rubbish about Bexley
Fly-tipping
People don’t like fly tipping do they?
Yesterday’s blog got a few people
agitated. The craziest story I heard came from the St. Augustine’s Road area of
Belvedere where there was one of those big street bins which didn’t get emptied
often enough and consequently tended to have black sacks placed alongside it.
If you have made a special journey to the bin, where else would you put them?
However they are undeniably unsightly especially if the foxes get at them so the
occasional request was made to the Council to pick them up. Bexley Council has
come up with a unique solution to the problem of bins attracting sacks but it is not the obvious one of
emptying the bins more often. Council logic is that if a full bin attracts black
sacks then the problem would go away if the bin was removed, so that is what
they have done. Presumably the black sacks will be more widely distributed in future.
Gayton Road in Abbey Wood and nearby Lensbury Way lost a total of at least eight street
bins about a year ago. In the case of Gayton Road where the bins were, a spy
camera has been installed to make sure no one drops a black bag there. Fly
tippers are the primary cause of fly tipping, not the Council, as Cabinet Member
Peter Craske is fond of telling his Labour party colleagues, but Bexley Council
is a fly tipper’s primary motivator.
Crossrail
It’s four weeks since Crossrail was last mentioned here and pictorially speaking
it has not been the most exciting month on record. They took ten days off over
Christmas and New Year but outside that period the work was mainly
prepare the ground, lay the cable conduits, fill the holes with concrete and
drop the pre-cast platform sections into place. They will have to be going some
to finish it by February when the track is due to be laid but things somehow
seem to run to time. Click
here for pictures.
There was some station roof work going on too but without a drone it is hard to see what.
Meanwhile, and not really a Crossrail problem, the lights at the pedestrian
crossing outside Sainsbury’s continue to turn red all by themselves day and
night. More than a month after
both Bexley and Greenwich Councils were told about it.