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News and Comment October 2020

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12 October (Part 2) - Piss off v Rip off

The brainless neo-Communist bastards who run Greenwich Council have just added ten minutes to my journey to East Ham. Within the past week they have installed a bus lane that extends from Woolwich to Greenwich thereby halving the road capacity. This is in addition to the few minutes added by the imposition of an unwarranted 20 m.p.h. limit along part of that route a month ago.

Just after midnight today after being held on a red light I used the instant torque of my electric vehicle to ensure I was first in the queue as we entered the unnecessarily narrow road and set the speed limit to 23 m.p.h. which the GPS says in reality is only 20. The queue behind was not happy and the more impatient drivers demonstrated their rage by zooming past on the inside. I don’t really blame them, after all the avowed intention of Greenwich Council road planners is “to piss off as many motorists as possible”. I know that because some years ago I met one of their road planners at a social function, friend of a friend, and that is what he said.

Pissed off motorists are not the safest of drivers but it would require a fully functioning brain to recognise that fact.

Bexley residents should not gloat, Bexley’s ambition is not ‘Piss off’ but ‘Rip off’. They are going to install nine more automated camera monitors across the borough in the hope of punishing motorists with 7,200 extra PCNs a year and adding around half a million pounds a year to Bexley’s ill-gotten gains.

Bexley Councillors will not be happy until Bexley becomes as big a s**t hole as the more obviously red boroughs.

As well as the nine new sites to be equipped with the spy-cams so beloved of Bexley’s money grabbing bastards will be a series of cameras along Harrow Manorway to enforce the halving of that road’s capacity. The Council papers on the subject say that the intention is to reduce bus journey times on Harrow Manorway. As everyone who uses that route will know there is no scope for speeding up buses on Harrow Manorway because nothing impedes their progress apart from their on-board speed limiters. It is a lie worthy of Councillor Craske in his heyday.

Bexley Council is on the lookout for more sites where it can install unnecessary bus lanes. Like all Councillors red and pink alike, none have the slightest clue of the impact on the economy of traffic gridlock.

Councillors had almost nothing to say about the latest of many attacks on motorists in Bexley. Councillor Richard Diment (Conservative, Sidcup) thought the public will need some convincing that it is not just another cynical money raising exercise.

Neo-communist. Noun. “A proponent or adherent of a new or revived form of communism, especially a form adapted to address local or contemporary conditions and issues; a member of an organization supporting such an ideology”.

 

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