14 August - Bexley Council says flat dwellers are dim
It
is more than likely that the new Abbey Wood CPZ (AW1) will drive some Liz line
commuters to ever more desperate and selfish measures. The white car in Photo 1 is parked in
the designated parking bay of one of my flat dwelling neighbours.
Every morning this week BU70 HVC has been driven in
and the young woman in Photo 2 gets out remarkably quickly and runs off towards
the station. She returns at about 6 p.m.
How many more will think it is OK to park on private property when the CPZ is in
force from 8th September? I have had around half a dozen
abuse my own drive in the past couple of months.
Away from home for most of the day I missed some of the CPZ activities but I was around to see the Conway man
chop down the pole
to a more reasonable height and stick a CPZ sign on it.
I asked him what was the point of a sign at the end of a cul-de-sac and he said that it was to inform the residents emerging from
their own private parking area that they were entering a CPZ. He installed
another next to a similar parking area (Photo 4) further along the road but not all such
parking areas. Several have been “missed”.
One has to ask why, if flat dwellers need to be reminded that when leaving home
they are entering a CPZ, every house has not been provided with such a reminder
at the end of their drives; or are people who live in flats by
Council definition not as intelligent as those who can afford to live in detached houses.
By the time I got home I was greeted by double yellow lines painted across the
entrance to the flats’ parking areas (Photos 5 and 6). Why do they need it? No
one should be blocking the entrances anyway and once again one might ask why it
is that not everyone’s drive is protected?
But hang on a minute, my own has been. (Photo 5). I have no objection, far from it, but
no one else has been so privileged.
No one will have expected Bexley Council to implement any Highways
related matter in a wholly intelligent fashion but surely a degree of
consistency would not be too difficult to achieve?
Nothing has been done to deter the most pressing issue in Coptefield Drive, nose
to kerb parking which forces large vehicles attempting to pass on to the footpath. One must hope
that the reduced pressure on parking space will encourage more orthodox parking.
Two Bonkers readers have reported that despite opening a Bexley parking account
it is not yet possible to buy a Parking Permit or Visitor’s Permits.
