29 March (Part 1) - Andrew Bashford is Head of Highway Services
Bexley
Council claims to have finished disrupting traffic outside the Civic Offices but the bad news is that chaos will continue in
perpetuity. Yesterday the crazy pedestrian controlled lights placed on the exit of all four roads on the
new roundabout were brought into service.
I needed to drive to Bexley Village yesterday afternoon, a journey that can take
as few as eleven minutes given a clear run and no red lights although 20 minutes
is more typical. Yesterday it took longer than that to get past the two new roundabouts.
A
year ago I forecast they would improve traffic flow. Clearly I failed to take
full account of the idiocy that pervades Bexley Council’s road planning department.
The photos below were taken over a period of five minutes when I broke the return journey from Bexley Village.
Every time a pedestrian used the lights the whole roundabout snarled up. As if the situation is not bad enough
already, after Easter Bexley Council
plans to install similar lights at the Albion Road roundabout.
Perhaps while there they will paint the yellow lines properly.
