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And so it came to underpass...

from Cathy (cathyvpreece@aol.com)

South London Press

And so it came to underpass...

May 21 2004

AS I am employed by a company based near Kennington Road, I (reluctantly) need to use the pedestrian subway to complete my journey to work.

Since the recent rains, this has been made somewhat more difficult by the closure of the route over to the Tabernacle side of the area.

While acknowledging that the heavy rain had caused some problems for the local council, is it really acceptable for them to have been gripped by total inaction regarding the dispersal of the water in this subway?

The sum of their efforts has been to seal it off with cones and tape, emergency measures certainly; but still in place nearly two weeks after is, I feel, not an acceptable solution to the problem.

It should not be too difficult to get the appropriate equipment down to this site to pump out the residual water and return this subway to normal use.

The more acute problem of inadequate drainage should be dealt with as soon as possible, regardless of any long-term proposals for the redevelopment of the area, as none of us should have to tolerate this example of local council inefficiency.

Perhaps Southwark council might give all of us an explanation of its lack of a solution to this matter?

Brendan Murphy
Leytonstone,
East London

(posted 7252 days ago)

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