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not4sale in reply to @Oliver Schick

Someone actually cuts the fence where it's more convenient/direct for people to enter on foot or by bike. And these typically don't get repaired, as I assume the management know that if they put a new fence up, it would only get cut again. So they're left and become unofficial and quite busy entrances.

Here is an example Oliver. The entrance and exit road to and from the retail outlets is designed for vehicles - there is no footpath for pedestrians and its a long way round from and to the bus stop.
But its a tricky slope when laden with shopping hence ...

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Oliver Schick in reply to @not4sale

Ah, cheers. Where is that (can't read the bus stop flag)?

I've found quite a few, but most of them don't show up on StreetView. Here's one that does, at Gateway Retail Park in Beckton:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5224247,0.0653761,3a,39.5y,162.67h,87.59t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sENF88sYNe_OYj69Wmti4qQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DENF88sYNe_OYj69Wmti4qQ%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D55.827744%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192

The fence that's been destroyed separates a footpath that I don't think is part of the retail park from the A13, but then people also made a path through what used to be continuous shrubbery. With some thought, they could easily have worked out that this would be a pedestrian desire line, but nobody spent any time on it.

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not4sale in reply to @Oliver Schick

Bugsbys Way SE7.
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jsabine in reply to @Oliver Schick

Ah, cheers. Where is that (can't read the bus stop flag)?

Bugsby's Way, Charlton.

The Wickes in the background is now a Home Bargains, so people are even more likely to cut down that slope to the bus stop

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