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22 April - Into the abyss

Pot hole Pot hole Cracked roadTwo weekend reports said that Bexley’s biggest pothole is at the junction of Blackfen Road and Westwood Lane. Apparently New Road has nothing on that one but without a photograph I can only assume that both BiB readers are right.

I am not finding two dimensional photography to be very good at illustrating the depth of a hole but this is the best one I can find within five minutes walk of home. Not perhaps for size alone but because of its strategic position; around 30 buses an hour and on a pedestrian crossing.

As the well weathered look suggests it has been there threatening to trip up pedestrians for a couple of months, maybe more.

It wasn’t safe to stick a tape measure down the hole but it may have breached the 40mm rule at the deepest spot but what is the mentality of a Council that prefers to wait for big problems to come along rather than take the stitch in time approach? Ah, it’s Bexley. Enough said.

On the other side of the crossing the road is severely cracked. Go a few more yards and there is a hole that has celebrated its first birthday, but it is in Greenwich!

 

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