15 January - Normal business may resume soon
Transport
Council meetings resume tonight which should allow for fewer gaps in these
pages as BiB will be able to report on Policing, Railways, Roads and TfL from the Transport Users’
Sub-Committee. If it follows the usual pattern and Agenda an
ill-prepared
police officer will apologise for not having had enough time to fulfill earlier
promises and leave us not much wiser than before.
Then the man from Southeastern will rattle through a series of slides like the
train enthusiast he obviously is and with any luck we will have a list of
achievements during the past quarter and some announcements of what we are going to see quite soon.
George Patterson is always the star of the show.
With TfL it is 50:50 on whether they will put in an appearance and if they do
whether the year old cyber-attack is still depriving them of vital statistics.
No doubt we will hear how Sadiq Khan’s Off-peak Friday Fare stunt was a failure
and how imposing tolls on Blackwall Tunnel is really really popular and will not invoke the law of unintended consequences.
Then we will get the update from Bexley on how many unwanted EV chargers have been dumped
into inconvenient places and where to see the biggest and best potholes. I will
ask the Cabinet Member if he still expects to get the CPZ recommendations
before the end of November. Sorry,
some time this week.
Email
Someone asked if he could email me which led me to a BiB Menu error. Because the
Mayor of London kept spamming me with unwanted propaganda I experimented by
changing BiB’s email address and taking if off the site. It didn’t work. SadIQ
carried on spamming on the new address - a determined sod! So I restored
the email page. Unfortunately I forgot to put it back on the Contact Menu
so no one could find it. Should be OK now.
@tony
Has not given up on pursuing his argument that Bexley Council should ticket
vehicles parked on private land but I feel their compromise is about right.
Generally they don’t issue PCNs but might at the discretion of the CEO. In @tony’s
case there is no photograph of the alleged obstruction so leaving private land
parking to the discretion of the CEO who decided to ignore it is not easily challenged.
From the look of the site (see photo) I would guess he may have been unduly
generous but I am not going to argue with him as I wasn’t there.
@tony’s latest letter from Bexley Council does however include a couple of interesting paragraphs.
These were not consecutive paragraphs.
In the first paragraph the Deputy Director of Neighbourhoods admits that PCNs
should not be issued for trivial matters which may well be of use to anyone asked to pay £65 for a wheel partially on the boundary line of a Yellow Money Box junction.
However he does admit that parking on private land is not always a penalty free activity.
@tony should never have assumed that a Deputy Director will ever concede that
his CEO might have made a mistake, After all, his colleague
Kevin Taylor would not concede
that his employee Kelly Wilkinson had broken the law by blocking the highway even when the photographic evidence and three witnesses said she had.
With such brazen effrontery being in every Bexley Deputy Director’s armoury what hope is there of beating one who has a reasonable defence?