Asda deliveries occupying bus stop and
endangering pedestrians on Forty Lane (2007)
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'Star letter: moving metal on our
roads is increasing'
[editor's title] Your front page story ('Baby killed by car', Observer, August 23), underlines the heartbreak of road fatality. Allow me to update readers on a campaign of ours that you last covered in July ('Lorry drivers are putting lives at risk', July 12). Asda delivery lorries continue to flout double yellow no stopping and no loading lines and the accompanying explicit roadside plates along Forty Lane outside the entrance to their superstore loading bay. Pedestrians with babies in prams, or pensioners with walking sticks alike, continue to be forced on to the main road because their drop kerb crossing on a slip road gets blocked by an Asda lorry. This has been happening at any time of day or night on a regular basis. We have made representations to Brent Council and the British Transport Police, and have alerted a representative of the GMB to the problem. I have spoken directly with a manager of the offending Asda store. It is high time for Asda to go on the record to explain to your readers, as they have attempted to justify to me, why they should be allowed to have their trucks endanger the lives of pedestrians in this way? Moreover, let Brent Council kindly explain to us how, with so many Brent drivers fined for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, there's never a traffic warden around to enforce such audacious breaches by Asda lorries? Is it one rule for local ratepayers and another for big business? I even have evidence of lorries mounting the pavement or blocking the nearby bus stop. These transgressions take place right under the nose of Town Hall! There is more moving metal on our roads than ever before and Brent Green Party does not wish to see a repeat of your tragic story, next time on Forty Lane. Shahrar Ali Green Candidate for the London Assembly Brent Green Party |
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