Stoic Londoners
Last night, I had to go to the bus stop to pick up a friend, who was coming to dinner.
At the moment, the Balls Pond Road, is more like the Balls Pond Roadworks and as buses through Dalston appeared to be being diverted, buses were stacked up to get to the stop, where my friend was to alight.
But was it all fraught, with shouting and waving?
No! Everybody just got on with their travel, perhaps walked a bit if necessary and got off buses in the middle of the road, if that was all they could do.
Hopefully, it’ll all be better in a week or two, when the works finish.
You do sometimes think that stupidity makes it worse. Yesterday, as I walked back from Dalston Junction, the road was narrowed by the road works, so what did some idiot decorators do? Block the pavement with ladders, so they could paint a building. This meant mothers with buggies had to use the road and weave between buses, trucks and other vehicles. Hopefully, there wasn’t an accident.
The Anonymous Widower 
Don’t expect the people in charge of the roadworks notified the shop being decorated in advance and the shop had probably booked their decorator well in advance.
While I usually agree with your thoughts, I don’t think the decorators should lose their income for roadworks.
Seeing the problem the roadworks could perhaps have introduced traffic lights or a person with a stop/go lollipop?!
Comment by Karrie | February 3, 2011 |
I should have taken a picture. Any sensible painters would have not started the work until the roadworks finished. One slip or a bus clipping the pavement, would have resulted in a serious accident.
As to lights the digging is all along the road for about two hundred metres, much of it in a bus lane. Perhaps the bus lane should have been closed and the buses diverted, but then the bus lane probably takes about one bus every minute or so.
Comment by AnonW | February 3, 2011 |