A not uncommon sight in the UK. Councils spend huge sums of tax payers money to regenerate urban areas including stone/concrete paved pedestrianised areas. A few weeks later gas, telecom or electricity companies do this.
The worst is when they dig up stone cobbled streets that are hundreds of years old and refill with tarmac.
This really grinds my gears!
One of the things they do that really drives me nuts is when they dig up a junction with road markings, when they tarmac over the bit they dug up they then repaint the white lines, but ONLY on the tiny strip they dug up, leaving the rest of the old faded lines with just one patch of bright white paint on it. Looks ridiculous. Seriously they can’t repaint the entire line!?
I don’t even understand how you end up with tarmac instead of pavement in the type of street pictured in the illustration. I mean isn’t it just faster and easier to put the block of pavement back into the hole it left once you’re done ??
It sounds like it’s faster, easier and cheaper to just dump asphalt and pay the fine.
Those who fail to restore the road to its previous state are only liable for a fine of up to £2,500. Boys Smith said: “This is clearly monstrously insufficient for the size of the firms involved and is not working.”
I’d bet on a proper fix costing a lot more than the £2,500 fine. More and more, it seems like the authors behind the EU’s GDPR had proper fine structures figured out. Make the fine some percentage of the company’s global annual revenue and suddenly they sit up and listen.
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