19 September - Road wrecking in Bexleyheath and Abbey Wood - and a bit of a flood
This evening’s Cabinet meeting provided the opportunity to look at the wrecking
operation in Albion Road. The town bypass is being reduced from two lanes in
each direction to just one. How mad is that?
It remains to be seen whether replacing the traffic lights in Gravel Hill with
two roundabouts is a success; I am cautiously optimistic. No one can say that
the lights performed perfectly.
Abbey Wood, or more precisely, the part of it around Wilton Road has been a centre
of interest for various agencies over the past week.
Up
to three police officers have been seen at the same time. Some shops have
been visited by both Bexley and Greenwich officers. Maybe they are not as
aware of the borough boundaries as one might expect.
Today two RBG wardens were on patrol while there was no sign of either the
drinking gang or their betting counterparts. The wardens said they had been
switched from their usual patch on Powis Street. Within seconds of taking their
photo I encountered one of the street beggars.
Maybe Greenwich Council should have sent a traffic warden instead, the car
first caught on
camera on 8th September and reported to have been there two weeks earlier, was
still occupying a prime position outside Hunters Estate Agency.
Meanwhile beggars and wardens alike can stand and wonder whether the new railway station
can possibly open on time. The wooden cladding is not as attractive as that
shown on the plans and water seems to be causing a few problems.
The men working in the deep hole near the temporary booking office
(Photo 69 in the current Crossrail album) say they are
dealing with a water leak and on the other side of the track a small reservoir
has appeared. The photograph (Photo 112) is currently at the top of the
pile
of new pictures over in the Crossrail section of Bonkers. The wooden
cladding is Photo 103. It looks too much like a pigeon loft to me.
Oh! And I finished the rewrite of the
www.abbeywoodvillage.co.uk
website and corrected dozens of mistakes. A trade directory with wrong addresses
and a beauty parlour with both the address and the phone number missing is surely
not a lot of use to anyone. And writing the code properly results in a website
that loads a lot more quickly and is not a lot more than a tenth of the size.
Whether it ever sees the light of day I do not know though Google will probably
index the temporary address in a day or two!