Post by Dave on Feb 20, 2009 22:05:13 GMT
It soon will be spring and it will be marked by the shoots of new plants and flowers pushing up from the ground, but did you know that temporary traffic lights have their very own season.
Well they do and it happens every year around now and I first discovered this fact a few years ago. They have been springing up this week in their hundreds and I did start to count them at the start of the week, but was forced to give up as my poor old Devon brain could not handle such large figures.
Along with all these lights and the roads that were closed(why do roads get closed these days for roadworks?) I have lost hours of time that really should be my own and not stuck waiting for orders to move from a bulb.
Can anyone tell me why what looks like a job that should only take a few days, lasts for weeks? maybe if they put more men on the job to start with, it would not cost thousands of people so much lost time. Mind you we all drive past and try and spot the working workman, its getting harder and harder and just why are they standing around doing nothing.
Who was the fool who thought it a good idea anyway to put all gas, eclectic and sewerage pipes under the middle of roads? its a no brainier, come on to repair or replace you have to dig the roads up and its funny how they always wait until the road has just had a brand new surface laid down. I mean why were all the service pipes not laid in some trench beside the road, then it could just be dug up and the roads would be left alone and traffic would not need to be held up by those temporary traffic lights. Where they do need to cross the road, it could have been done in just one place, not every ten yards as it seems they are.
Another thing I have learned is that traffic cones are homeless, very sad but true, they do not have a place to call home and therefore a place has to be found for them. Well it was a simple solution to the problem in the end, find a motorway or dual carriage way and lay them all out there. We have all seem those miles and miles of cones, as we get forced into just one lane and then suffer even more long delays on our journey. Guess what. we never see any workmen, or any sign of anything going on, or anything that has gone on or is ever likely to go on.
Then you drive along that stretch another day and find they have all gone, but don't get fooled,(you must remember they are homeless
) they have only be moved somewhere else and soon you will find out just where. What a silly name it is anyway, you know the one roadworks well for me it conjurers up an image of some new road being built or a brand new surface to drive on, one where we will find an end to all those potholes, but how wrong we are in the end.
The road really ends up with even more bumps to drive over and what once looked just fine, now has patches of different colour tarmac all over it, or even worse lots of different colour anti skid surfaces, why? you are never going to get up enough speed to bloody skid.
Soon those temporary traffic lights will be put away for another year, just as well really but we still won't be able to drive very far as the lovely holiday season will start then and it will be back to sitting in those jams and try and dodge all those fools who can't read what lane they should have been in and then cut you up and give you the dirty look as If you were the one in the wrong. The joys of motoring? well it was once, but as in most things if life its being made harder for no good reason.
Well they do and it happens every year around now and I first discovered this fact a few years ago. They have been springing up this week in their hundreds and I did start to count them at the start of the week, but was forced to give up as my poor old Devon brain could not handle such large figures.
Along with all these lights and the roads that were closed(why do roads get closed these days for roadworks?) I have lost hours of time that really should be my own and not stuck waiting for orders to move from a bulb.
Can anyone tell me why what looks like a job that should only take a few days, lasts for weeks? maybe if they put more men on the job to start with, it would not cost thousands of people so much lost time. Mind you we all drive past and try and spot the working workman, its getting harder and harder and just why are they standing around doing nothing.
Who was the fool who thought it a good idea anyway to put all gas, eclectic and sewerage pipes under the middle of roads? its a no brainier, come on to repair or replace you have to dig the roads up and its funny how they always wait until the road has just had a brand new surface laid down. I mean why were all the service pipes not laid in some trench beside the road, then it could just be dug up and the roads would be left alone and traffic would not need to be held up by those temporary traffic lights. Where they do need to cross the road, it could have been done in just one place, not every ten yards as it seems they are.
Another thing I have learned is that traffic cones are homeless, very sad but true, they do not have a place to call home and therefore a place has to be found for them. Well it was a simple solution to the problem in the end, find a motorway or dual carriage way and lay them all out there. We have all seem those miles and miles of cones, as we get forced into just one lane and then suffer even more long delays on our journey. Guess what. we never see any workmen, or any sign of anything going on, or anything that has gone on or is ever likely to go on.
Then you drive along that stretch another day and find they have all gone, but don't get fooled,(you must remember they are homeless
) they have only be moved somewhere else and soon you will find out just where. What a silly name it is anyway, you know the one roadworks well for me it conjurers up an image of some new road being built or a brand new surface to drive on, one where we will find an end to all those potholes, but how wrong we are in the end.The road really ends up with even more bumps to drive over and what once looked just fine, now has patches of different colour tarmac all over it, or even worse lots of different colour anti skid surfaces, why? you are never going to get up enough speed to bloody skid.
Soon those temporary traffic lights will be put away for another year, just as well really but we still won't be able to drive very far as the lovely holiday season will start then and it will be back to sitting in those jams and try and dodge all those fools who can't read what lane they should have been in and then cut you up and give you the dirty look as If you were the one in the wrong. The joys of motoring? well it was once, but as in most things if life its being made harder for no good reason.