3 January (Part 1) - Pedestrian progress
Three
on the trot may risk turning BiB into the @tonyofsidcup show but there is nothing more from him on the
horizon. (†) Today he is back on his pedestrian crossing hobbyhorse. The road judged
by Bexley Council to be most in need of a pedestrian crossing was Yarnton Way in Thamesmead but the Highways Manager provided
a not unreasonable explanation of it being overlooked in favour of
sites further to the South.
The Hurst Road crossing is up and running and Bexley Council is now
consulting on one for Slade Green. @tony has never been there but it hasn’t
stopped him from asking Vinney Rey to send him the plans. (See below.)
Vinney kindly sent a PDF and the following comment…
The scheme proposes to introduce a zebra crossing sited at Slade Green
Road close to the junction with Chrome Road. The crossing would help school
children of St Paul’s Primary and Haberdashers Slade Green Primary, as well
as other pedestrians, cross Slade Green Road safely. The scheme involves:
• The introduction of a new zebra crossing on the existing raised table at the location.
• High friction surfacing to be laid on each approach to the crossing.
• Tactile paving surfacing for the benefit of visually impaired pedestrians.
• The introduction of no stopping (zig-zag) road markings associated with a zebra crossing arrangement.
• Adjustments to the existing ‘School Keep Clear’ markings and waiting restrictions at the location to suit the new road layout.
@tony is arguing that the crossing is not ideally placed. Too far from the bus stop. At the risk of rousing @tony’s ire I will turn
his illegal parking story
on its head. (He criticised Bexley Council for not looking at a problem.)
Vinney will have been to Slade Green Road and @tony admits to not being familiar with it.
More usefully, @tony’s questioning has uncovered two children who were recently injured at the forgotten Yarnton Way site.
† Whoops! Another arrived while finishing off the foregoing.
I found myself being intrigued by the fact that the Slade Green Road plans were produced by a company called Watermans. The same company that produced
the water quality report which backed Bexley Council’s decision to close the Belvedere Splash Park. It was widely
discredited at the time and the suggestion was that the final version was not impartial
because it was modified by Bexley Council to suit their agenda.
The original did not include the word Cryptosporidium. The Council’s was littered with it every few paragraphs.
Have we really got no one left in Bexley Council capable of knocking up a little engineering diagram?