Quote Originally Posted by BLUETIT View Post
Don’t think you’ll find ‘um working till half 8
That's another thing that pisses me off. They are working on a main arterial road and they should be working 24/7 to get the road open as fast as possible. I had the misfortune to drive to London on the M$ yesterday. Around reading there is 20 miles of roadworks. There were offices open in the works area but not one single person working on the road.
What ever you may thing of boris Johnson he had a good idea when he was London Mayor. He wanted to charge all contractors if the blocked or partially blocked any road. They could factor the time into their contract which would be assessed and approved. If they overran the time they would be fines for every day or part of a day the road remained impeded. That would have concentrated minds and made companies work in partnership instead of digging the same piece of road up 4 different times as I have see.

He was prevented from forcing the change, I think by the government, but it should be used everywhere.