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15 October (Part 1) - Spot the difference

Another quick trip to Bexleyheath yesterday. Quick because there was just one thing to collect from HMV but also because I don’t want to be subjected to buskers delivering more than 95db of noise in an enclosed space. I have a sound pressure App on my phone - doesn’t everybody? - and it was the same last week. Who licences these ear splitting performances?

The workers had moved on to tinkering with the Highland Road roundabout (Photos 1 and 2) and Townley Road (Photo 3) was finished. I have no idea what has changed from Photo 4 taken on 30th September 2019. Presumably the new grass will soon die off like it did last time Bexley Council spent our money for no very obvious reason.

I have in my files a letter from the Chief Highways Manager which promises a resident who lives barely 100 yards away that he would definitely be restoring the bluebells that grew on the roundabouts before the 2017 reconstruction. Needless to say, he never did. Destroying bluebells is a criminal offence.
Highland Road roundabout reconstruction Highland Road roundabout reconstruction Townley Road roundabout reconstructed Townley Road roundabout as it was in 2019

Roundabouts: Highland, Highland, new Townley, old Townley.

 

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