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News and Comment December 2023

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10 December - Broke(n) Bexley

When did Bexley Council last sweep your road? I am not sure about my own but I noted the accumulation of gravel from a deteriorating road surface before nearby Carrill Way was resurfaced in May and it has not moved since. When I drew it to the attention of a Councillor on 28th June he said his road was much the same.

In mine the Council has a reasonable excuse although it is perhaps self-created. From Monday to Friday dawn to dusk the kerbside is fully occupied by Elizabeth line commuters who are unwilling to pay £15 a day to park nearer the station.

Leaf mould Leaf mouldWalking there may however represent a health hazard; last week I very nearly went base over apex at the station end of Fendyke Road because the footpath was entirely covered by slippery fallen leaves. The drain gullies were completely blocked by them.

Bexley Council would rather pass its costs on to the NHS and flooded householders than fulfill its own obligations.

Gayton Road, adjacent to the station, has not been swept in months either and the accumulated leaves there have been pulped into some pretty decent compost for any enterprising gardener.


Gayton RoadPerhaps this is an opportune moment to display a photo of the concrete blocks displaced from Felixstowe Road to Gayton Road where they have made the traffic congestion even worse than it was before.

Bexley Council with typical lack of forethought made almost no provision for people waiting to pick up passengers from the Elizabeth line trains and the result is either a total blockage of two bus routes or footpath parking.

The latter has now been curtailed by placing a number of concrete blocks such that if a car is parked alongside them a bus cannot get around the corner. Most cars, but not all, now park on the opposite footpath.

This is exactly the sort of road planning one has come to expect of Bexley Council. When they promote the man who lied to me about the reasons for narrowing roads in contravention of official guidance to be Highways Manager it is all rather inevitable.

Yet another example of Bexley Council’s senior management having to be liars in order to climb the greasy pole.

Note: My son was Head of the Department that issued the guidance so I was able to get expert confirmation that Bexley Council lied.

 

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