14 August - Can I claim a record?
Thames
Water is doing its best to wreck the local economy
A little before 5 p.m. today I took 24 minutes, not
just to get through Sidcup, but to simply pass from one end of the Story Teller
Cinema to the other,
Nothing was moving Southbound on Elm Road. Traffic was coming through Northbound
but towards the A20 everything was at a standstill. People were getting out of
their cars to try to find out what was going on.
The junction with the High Street was blocked by traffic coming from the
West and turning into Elm Road as a result of which nothing could travel from
East to West and South to North was difficult.
When traffic began to move it looked as though the temporary lights were being
manually controlled but there was no obvious reason for the earlier gridlock.