Councillor Hunt is right isn’t he?
The roads in Bexley are perpetually bloody awful.
Currently Danson Park Road is closed in a southerly direction and as far as I
can ascertain this is to facilitate the building of a new development on the corner with Crook
Log. The result is total chaos. If you turn right out of Brampton Road intending to immediately
turn left into Danson Park Road there is no warning of the closure until you find the road on the left blocked.
This requires carrying straight on toward Welling. My lady visitor is not very
familiar with Bexleyְְְ’s poor road system and I was concerned that she would have
been forced to cross one of Wellingְ’s yellow box traps yesterday.
I told her of the alternative via Upton Road but that too involves traversing one of
Bexley’s most notorious yellow traps at the end of Avenue Road. It holds up
buses on a regular basis (several minutes at a time occasionally) which is presumably the intention. When Cabinet Member
Richard Diment complains at a Council meeting that the bus services in Bexley
are seriously below par - as he did at a recent Scrutiny meeting - remember that it is largely his fault. Most of his YBJs
are totally unnecessary and maliciously bigger than they need to be.
Lacking confidence that that Avenue Road trap would be successfully navigated by the aforesaid visitor I
acted as escort today and due to missing a turning off Upton Road we were in Penhill
Road before resuming the familiar route.
From there two buses took an hour and 25 minutes to get me back to Abbey Wood.
An advertised eleven minute wait for a 132 to Bexleyheath - but two came along
together - where a 301 was said to be due in a minute. It never showed up and the next was said to be 15 minutes
although it was rather less than that.
We then encountered Long Lane with three way traffic lights due to the same gas works which have been
on-going on and off for more than a year, Nearer to Knee Hill,
Pinewood Road was completely shut as it has been for weeks.
There are four bus routes running from Bexleyheath Clock Tower to Abbey Wood
Station which sounds like a lot of choice but it is not really because they depart from
four different bus stops. Only two of them are close enough to easily hope from
one to the other. So effectively only one bus; make your choice and hope for the best.
TfL. Every Journey Matters.