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News and Comment November 2023

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22 November - Bexley. One very inconsiderate Council

I suppose it must be getting on for twenty years since I first noticed Bexley Council’s preference for closing roads completely when it could almost as easily be kept open and I wondered if it might be for Health & Safety reasons; however I have come around to thinking that the real reason is that Bexley and Councils more generally make no attempt whatsoever to consider the inconveniences they impose on the people who pay their inflated salaries if it makes their own working lives easier.

New Roads closed New Roads closed New Roads closedNew Road in Abbey Road is closed again for two weeks for the second time in a handful of months. Once again the reason is gas works at the top end, but is total closure necessary?

New Road resident Roger Keene has drawn my attention to his Facebook post but his comments need to be given wider publicity.

The loss of three bus routes and nearly 30 buses an hour has a significant impact on Abbey Wood and Belvedere. TfL re-routed the 469 to give Upper Belvedere a direct link to the Elizabeth line. Now it is diverted into Plumstead which makes it an unnecessarily slow journey. A disabled lady in New Road now has a long walk which includes the Gayton Road stairs to get a 301/B11 into Bexleyheath. Only this afternoon I had to tell someone waiting for a bus outside the Community Centre in Knee Hill that he would have a very long wait if he stayed there.

Bexley Council really doesn’t care and would prefer that we blamed the gas company’s contractor, but to do so would not be fair.

JDT, the contractor has told Roger that they didn’t need a road closure, it was Bexley Council that insisted on it.

Three days after closure there is no obvious sign that work has commenced and Bexley Council has yet to respond to an email asking why they demanded a closure that the contractor did not ask for.

Can there be any doubt that Conservative Bexley Council works against residents’ best interests?
Contractor's notice Contractor's notice

 

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