Long term users of Penhill Road
will know that it used to offer two traffic lanes to the large roundabout at the end of
the Danson Underpass, then came along Aurang Zeb, one of Bexley’s traffic
planners, to reduce it to a single lane and we have had a
perma-queue ever since. He said it was to make the
road easier to cross. Leaving aside the fact that very few people cross it outside
school opening/closing times, if he had been serious about pedestrian safety he would
have specified a proper crossing. As usual we got the worst of both worlds.
Bexley’s road narrowing fetish continues apace. The junction of Faraday Avenue,
Sidcup with Foots Cray Lane has never been easy at busy times but traffic heading
in a southerly direction did at least have the benefit of a second lane to bypass
those wishing to turn right. So what does Bexley council do to improve matters?
Additional obstacles are being installed and the pavement has been extended into
the ‘bypass’ lane. See how the straight ahead arrow is almost obscured and the
second lane is no more. So far there is no sign of the mini-roundabout
that I heard rumoured.
Path extended, road dramatically narrowed.
Longmead Drive closed. Why?
Another central island.