27 February - Our useless Council, again
While we wait, if you are, for @tonyofsidcup’s fifth installment of ‘I love Sadiq’
or the Public Cabinet meeting report there is nothing left but to attempt to shame Bexley
Council again for its uselessness when it comes to regulating commuter parking around
Abbey Wood station. Presumably they would rather issue PCNs than lift a finger to help its taxpayers.
What a shower they are, Councillors too.
I have not been reporting illegal parking by residents because nearly all of it occurs only as the direct result of inconsiderate
Elizabeth line commuters. However I think I may have made an exception in this case because the
van was not only forcing pedestrians into the road on a busy corner, it was in combination with the white van
seen in the background, blocking the road for all but the smallest vehicles.
Fortunately someone beat me to it because the van was ticketed barely five minutes after Photo 1 was taken.
Because the (background) white van parks end on and Bexley Council refuses to do anything about
road blocking it can sometimes be difficult for me to drive home.
The easiest solution is to make use of the dropped kerb on the corner and mount
the pavement as far as the next dropped kerb. When of course the dropped kerb is not blocked by another vehicle.
The two vans share an owner and once again the wanton disregard for societal norms may be traced to
‘cultural diversity’. Sooner or later decent people will rise up against it.