The FlixBus fightback begins
@LewishamCouncil Can you get this company sorted out? This is on the corner of Ashby road and Wickham Road. They are always parked here, it’s dangerous as well as illegal.@BrockleyCentral @MPSLewisham @FlixBus pic.twitter.com/X46vRzQE8R— Philos (@philos90) June 25, 2018
#Flexibus it is against law to leave engine running while parked. Your driver refused to turn engine off Wickham Rd SE4. They park here every day, this will stop. #brockley #paris #paristransport #lewisham— Lawrence B Collins (@mentalmapping) June 25, 2018
The FlixBus fightback has begun. Years after the van hire companies using our pavements as a storage facility were driven away, Brockley residents are kicking off about the FlixBus coaches that are regularly and illegally parked on our streets, blocking pedestrian ramps and poking round junctions.
German coach company FlixBus keeps its operating costs low by loading some of those costs on to our streets.
The problem also highlights the hollowness of the argument that CPZs will deal with dodgy parking in the area. There are already enough laws to punish bad parking, they are simply not enforced.
FlixBus' social media team have promised to look into the problem of rogue parking, but Lewisham Council, which has promised action on clean air, needs to do the same.
