On Nov 2, 1:48�pm, Mizter T wrote:
On 2 Nov, 12:51, " wrote:



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The fact that the main road leading to the shopping centre from the
South, Holland Avenue or whatever it's called is being dug up, with
narrow lanes (actually one lane, thanks to idiot parking at week-ends)
meant that last week-end, even BEFORE the shopping centre opened there
was traffic tailbacks right the way down to High Street Kensington.
This will mean it is virtually impossible to get to the shopping
centre by car from South London, unless one wants to queue for an hour
or so!

There's a simple solution to this - bring a camping gas stove and cook
yourself a full English Breakfast in your car whilst you wait in the
traffic jam.

Is the "idiot parking" on Holland Road merely residents doing what
they are allowed to do at weekends according to the parking
restrictions?

Of course there are other ways to approach Westfield by car from the
south, such as by joining the A40 Westway at Paddington or by coming
up through Putney, Fulham and Hammersmith. (There are also ways
through the back-streets of Chelsea that avoid the Earl's Court one-
way system, though they're somewhat complex.)

However the best way to approach it from south London is surely by
train or tube, though not at rush hour! The London Overground WLL
service will take you up there from Clapham Junction, and come
December (unless I've got this muddled) trains going up the WLL from
will be starting from East Croydon stopping at all stations via
Norbury and Balham (I forget - is this service going to become more
frequent than hourly?).

Another alternative of course is simply not to go to Westfield, and
instead to go elsewhere - south of the river Croydon, Bromley and
Kingston instantly spring to mind as large shopping destinations.

Or just don't go shopping!

Mizter T,

I made the comment merely as an observation.

I accept your final sentence in its entirety - I hardly ever do any
shopping and when I do it's mostly online.

I have and want nothing to do with Westfield or any other shopping
centre.

I was merely en route from Fulham (where I live) to Cambridge for a
long week-end, which was made considerably shorter by the traffic
jam! I will certainly avoid the area like the plague in future.

The "idiot parking" was a parked German-registered car which
prevented the "narrow lanes" operating, creating a 1-lane bottleneck
at the pinch point where road works begin, so what should have been 2
narrow lanes was actually reduced to one lane for that car-length.

Marc.