Saturday, 9 August 2008

Photo op at ASDA

Brent Green Party, has as one of its local campaigns, raising concern about the parking of large articulated delivery lorries outside the ASDA supermarket in Wembley.
As my picture below shows the supermarket does have a large loading bay and it also has a huge car park on the other side of the building which could be used to accommodate waiting delivery lorries, nonetheless at busy times lorries have been known to park outside ASDA, sometimes in such a way that they can force pedestrians off the pavements and to walk along a major road that is often busy with fast traffic .

Some of the signage shown below shows that this seems to be illegal.
A magnificently minimal view of a no loading sign outside Wembley ASDA.

<BGP ppc Shahrar Ali with assorted signage outside Wembley ASDA. The one above his head suggests that Lorries parked here are parked illegally.

The signs on the loading bay gates, which Shahrar thinks are a recent development since BGP started its campaign, seem to show some increasing awreness of the problem on ASDA's part, but do they apply only inside the loading bay (?), and even then they only require the reporting of hazards not actually not acting so as to cause them in the first place.

Frankly I have my doubts about this campaign, isn't the Green party supposed to be opposed to supermarkets, per se (?) and isn't just making it easier for ASDA to go about its business without casuing potentailly fatal traffic accidents? But I suppose it is worth objecting to the corporate arrogance which seems to be putting profit before customer safety.

Anyway its good meedja.

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