14 August (Part 1) - Back to basics
Bexley Council
has conducted a survey on introducing Controlled Parking Zones
which it hopes will improve the parking situation around Abbey Wood station.
Everyone I have spoken to is in favour so my guess is that in due course the
CPZs will be introduced. Unfortunately as proposed it will not completely solve the problems caused by inconsiderate parking.
LX24 NNU created considerable danger on the corner of Carrill Way and Abbey Road
today by parking on the corner. For more than an hour and probably longer.
The car displays a blue badge but that does not mean that the driver is not an entitled inconsiderate moron uninterested in anyone but himself, or herself.
The CPZ will not put an end to such stupidity.
The van YT69 VEF which belongs to Preservation Treatments 0800 980 4937 has
blocked the road to all but the smallest of vehicles since early this morning.
There is nothing in the CPZ proposals (although I have requested that there should be) to stop him doing that for at least part of the day
and at weekends in future.
Incidentally, I had passed the cyclist in Photo 2 just a few minutes earlier on
the Harrow Manorway flyover. He was wobbling along close to the middle of the road
with a phone in his hand and none on the handle bars causing me to drive on the
wrong side of the road to avoid splatting him. I am in awe of someone who can briefly do a wheelie
while watching his phone on a bike. And here he is in Abbey Road doing much the
same and entirely free of the fear of retribution.