Amberon (Core Highways): inefficient or what?
I want a job with Amberon (Core Highways). The same as the chap who's driven his Amberon "Highway Maintenance" truck to Station Road in Castle Cary for the last 3 days (at least), has parked up and sits there engine running, lights on, all day. And then drives away again at the end of the afternoon. There's no-one else working on that stretch of road - so what does he actually do? (Apart from annoy all the motorists who have to stop at the temporary traffic lights for no apparent reason). There's a serious point to all this: 1. Sitting in a truck with the engine running is not only extremely bad for the environment, it annoys those people that have to live next to it. 2. Someone - probably the local ratepayers - is paying for all this inefficiency. I don't blame the chap in the truck. I blame his Managers who clearly have no idea what's going on - and the company that subcontracted the work to Core Highways without knowing how inefficient they are. Maybe I have it all wrong. Maybe he does a traffic census all day. Maybe he counts how many cars jump the red lights. Maybe he's "tuning" the timing of the lights to make them more efficient. Who knows?
By Mr Bill J.