28 November (Part 1) - Enjoy the sights and delights of Abbey Wood
BiB will disappoint the Northumberland Numpty (Councillor Read thinks it only reports negative stuff)
today by reporting that the first of four new footpath ‘legs’ on Harrow Manorway flyover opened last Tuesday and
it looks rather nice, if a big expanse of moulded concrete can ever be called nice.
It is clean, bright, graffiti and litter free (for now) and provides interesting
views that have not been available until now. (Before its renovation the flyover did not have a footpath.)
Comment locally has been almost entirely favourable with just a few people
suggesting that pedestrians should be protected by a barrier. Unfortunately
barriers can have a cheese grater effect on cyclists who find themselves too close to passing vehicles.
Once Peabody builds hundreds of houses nearby the traffic congestion
is likely to reduce vehicle speed to near zero and both pedestrians and cyclists will feel safe .
Beneath the flyover traffic roads
are frequently congested already but for entirely different reasons, Bexley Council’s stupidity.
They allow parking on a corner which brings buses (the 244 runs at ten minute
intervals) to a halt. It’s a near daily occurrence,
and I caught a glimpse of it again this morning. How long will it be before
Bexley Council wakes up to the fact that it is somewhere badly in need of a second yellow line?
For the record the incident took place before the single line restriction came
into operation and the Civil Enforcement Officer behaved impeccably.