I'm enjoying the sheer scale of the roadworks we've seen in Morocco, but also the sparseness of them — one person to a machine, maybe two, with no-one much hanging around between. No convoy systems or traffic light setups, either: wherever there's space, and there often is, they run a temporary road wide of the damage, or build an entirely new road alongside the old one rather than patch it up.
The road outside my house is completely closed, with clear signage. I've been here just over an hour and the number of cars which ignored the "road closed" sign to have to put on the emergency brakes when encountering the road-spanning hole in the ground is already in double figures.
Gridlock in Ludlow today as Shropshire Council allows traffic lights on two main roads and closes another
“Andy,” the bus driver shouted as I was being walked past the long traffic jam by Mel the Collie. “It’s utter chaos. It’s taking an hour to get around town.” He was driving the vital 722 park and ride service which has a 30-minute schedule. “Who on earth allowed three sets of roadworks in Ludlow on the same day,” he asked.
The answer to his question is Shropshire Council which is spending…
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Roadworks along the St. Charles Avenue streetcar line, 1899. Photo from "Street Railway Review" 15 June 1899.
Original caption:
"CULVERT CROSSING, ST. CHARLES STREET R. R. NEW ORLEANS.
NOVEL CULVERT CROSSING.
The accompanying engraving from a photograph taken on the lines of the St. Charles Street Railroad Co., of New Orleans, is interesting as showing the wood paving used on all except the main streets, and also a novel culvert crossing. The drainage of New Orleans being on the surface the depth of crossings over the gutters has been limited to 5 inches in order not to interfere with the flow. The company is laying some 9 inch girder rails and at culverts it is necessary to cut away the lower flange and 4 inches of the web, and rivet angles to the web as shown in the illustration."
Technology Secretary secures further agreement from telecoms firms to protect vulnerable customers
Companies in charge of maintaining the UK’s internet and phone infrastructure have today agreed to new measures to protect vulnerable customers as their landlines are upgraded to a new digital network.
Network operators commit to protecting vulnerable people using personal alarms, so they are not put at risk while their phone lines are upgraded;
Openreach, CityFibre and Sky are amongst those…