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News and Comment January 2023

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10 January - Parking. The good news and the no good at all

Bad parking Bad parking Bad parkingYesterday was a good day for Operation Zero Tolerance. Two cars immediately outside my house were given parking tickets and a third one 100 yards away as well.

The car pictured here represents a bit of a problem. It was left there by a woman, or to be more precise I saw a woman standing next to it at 7 a.m. yesterday morning, while the car’s lights were still on. I assumed a short term stop to give a friend a lift or some such thing but it is still there more than 24 hours later partially blocking my own drive and preventing several people nearby from getting their vehicles out of their rear parking spaces.

SloppyStyle’s refuse trucks cannot get access to their overflowing bins either. Incidentally, the bins shown in Photo 1 have all been there unemptied since before Christmas.

Meanwhile the residents of New Road are being abused by Bexley Council which is imposing additional parking restrictions (and costs) on them in order to allow buses to run unimpeded. Buses that arguably should be going up and down a re-engineered Knee Hill. Residents everywhere come a poor second to ever more buses and Bexley Council appears to be unable to understand that parking restrictions in one place merely displace the problem to somewhere else. Especially when the somewhere else is closer to Abbey Wood station.

Because Bexley Council’s intentions are not very clear from the proposed Traffic Order, one persistent resident took himself off to the Contact Centre as directed by Michael Wenbourne, a name familiar to me because it was attached to correspondence which said I did not have a dropped kerb to my house even though it has been there since 1987. Photo 2.
Proposed Traffic Order
Having made the journey he was told that the Contact Centre does not hold a copy of the Order and associated map but they did offer to send one through the post.

The resident had taken the precaution of phoning 020 3045 3943 beforehand to warn them of his planned visit but unfortunately no one answers the phone in Mr. Wenbourne’s department.

 

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