Archev's adventures in the Berlingo

[T1 Terry]

I usually have a slightly different experience. It's a big temporary sign saying slow 60km/hr, road workers, in a 110km/hr zone. I dutifully travel for about 10km at very reduced speed, to come across an end speed limit sign, with no evidence of said work or workers.

Often, they mark out areas that will be worked on between the start of scheduled work and the planned end date.
The people that do the traffic control get these areas and between this date and that date, they have no choice, even if the workers aren't in that actual area, they have no idea if they might move to that area, or if the road is in that bad condition the safe speed has been deemed to be 60km/h rather than 110km/h, so they are obligated, and get paid, to mark those areas at the speed they have been advised to post .....

Gone are the days when one mob did the lot, it's all specialised, each traffic control officer needs a different level of licence to do a particular function in the traffic management ..... the one with the lolli-pop sign is now a graded traffic control officer, a step above the one that puts the speed signs out, but not as high as the one who operates the traffic lights where a single lane is all that is available ..... next level is the person driving the speed control vehicle to stop anyone from exceeding the perceived safe speed .... the next is the one who sits in the air conditioned vehicle with a heap of walkie talkies and over-sees the whole circus ......
I worked with a contract industrial fitter on a 14 hr shut down, big $$ work, and he told me he only does this stuff now when there is no lolli-pop sign work available, the sign work pays more .... a strange world we live in that's for sure .... someone with 15 yrs experience as an industrial fitter get better pay working the lolli-pop sign at road works ....

T1 Terry

 

[siteguru]

We've had the vagaries of "traffic management" in our town recently ... temporary lights around some works being done near a busy intersection, but said lights completely ignoring another set of fixed lights a little further up the road so they weren't in sync at all. This caused havoc around the town, as the temp lights could be on red but people turning right from the fixed lights onto that road couldn't move, which meant that the joining road would back up meaning nobody could move anywhere - anyone wanting to turn left at the fixed lights either had to sit and fume, or take their chances on the wrong side of the road to get to the front of the queue and force their way across.