17 October (Part 3) - Rip off merchants
As
mentioned a couple of times I have been working on a technical update of ancient
blogs, starting in 2009 and now almost through 2011.
A lot of old photos and documents have had to be extracted from dusty files
for rescanning. A big Windows update this morning wiped my scanning software,
bloody Microsoft, but it is reinstalled now.
A document that predates Bonkers by ten years that has never been posted here
came to light. It is the consultation document for a Controlled Parking Zone
around Abbey Wood station.
The map shows my road included in the CPZ but a majority didn’t want it so it
stops just short of my address. In retrospect a shame. Everyone in my road has
at least one off-road parking space.
However the interesting thing is the cost of the permit. £20 a year in Bexley
at the Millennium which inflation would have pushed to £33.92 according to the Bank of England’s
inflation calculator. In Greenwich their £11 would be £18.65.
By 2011 Bexley’s price
had been set at £100.