Wouldn’t it be nice if the road works contractors gave as much thought to the publics safety as they do there own?

It’s bad enough when they pack up for night and leave the signs up when there aren’t any road works being carried (The boy that cried wolf?) but when you are working on a busy main road with a 60mph speed limit in a dip wouldn’t it make sense to put signs up before the dip in the road?

Imagine you are driving down the road at 60mph and you go over the brow of a hill only to find a queue of traffic stopped at the temporary traffic lights 50m in front you? Well that happened to me yesterday and although I was able to stop in time I sat in the car for what felt like an eternity waiting for the traffic to move before someone came haring up over the hill behind me and crashed into the back of my car.

Now I know the contractors have probably put the signs out exactly how they are supposed to which is fine if you are on a straight road with clear line of sight but don’t you think a little bit of common sense should be used and give people at least a chance to slow down a bit knowing there could be a problem in front of them on a piece of road they cannot see?

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