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TfL doesn’t seem to care as much.
It's all done in the interest in saving costs. Which it does - except that the beancounters don't see the "cost" of the job taking 10 times longer.
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I take your point, but are the setts a heritage asset, or merely a historic relic?
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This might be a ridiculous idea, but couldn’t a team be equipped and trained to do both the sanding and painting on a single visit. They might even possibly learn to convert a 3 to a 2 without altering anything else.
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The painters before the sanders: sounds rather like Flanders and Swann and The Gas Man Cometh!
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I agree, and when I worked with Tower Hamlets they were usually quite precious about their setts and cobbles, having in previous decades just allowed them to be ripped up and replaced with concrete or tarmac.
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kev - You won't be surprised to learn that many simple things are sub-contracted to an absurd level. You'll probably have one contractor who can remove markings and another to paint them on. And I wouldn't be surpised if there's one contractor who only does yellow lines and another who only does the white painted symbols.
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Sigh. Having just returned from a visit to a country where efficiency and presentation is prized, and therefore duly funded, I'm noticing all the more what a poor comparison we make.
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The stupid speed limit road painting is no different to how it happens in Australia. How lucky we are to live in countries that can waste so much money.
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In my vicinity, works started about two years ago to provide a pedestrian crossing between new houses and bus stop. First came permanent warning triangles for the traffic lights, then the dropped curbs, then the posts for the traffic lights, which have not yet appeared, and the path to the bus stop is still blocked by a stone wall. Each of these involved digging up the new road surface and blocking access for many local people for many weeks with no reliable warning.
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