24 August - The good news and the bad news
Yesterday I made an unplanned 11 a.m. trip to Bromley. In the middle of Sidcup,
avoiding The Green as usual, I saw that Station Road was blocked off and all the
buses were turning right out of Elm Road.
However the good news was that the one way light controlled part of Elm Road was
much reduced in length and Thames Water had moved their clobber which had blocked the Elm Road end of The Green; so on my return trip I used The Green meeting no one
en-route because
the Road Closed signs were still in place in the High Street.
Goodness knows how the buses managed to get back on route.
So now if us Northerners need to get to Bromley, the Sidcup route is badly
disrupted by the Station Road closure and North Cray Road is completely impassable
and a middle route through Footscray and Crittalls Corner is the only alternative.
But oh no it isn’t. It is closed all this week for resurfacing. No entrance to
the multi-way roundabout from anywhere. It needed
doing, traffic could not take the safest route to the required exit because of
the number of potholes that had to be avoided.
Unusually you cannot blame this on Thames Water, it is part of Bexley Council’s
scheduled work. Night time only fortunately. (20:00 to 05:00)