Mr Bill J.
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?