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Road works in Spain

Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2023 10:07am
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Kenneth1

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A typical work day. 

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Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2023 12:04pm

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Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2023 12:04pm

My experience of watching roadworks in Spain is that they get stuff done in about a fifth of the time that it would take in the UK. They're very efficient. 

A couple of years ago they built a new roundabout on the N332 at Calpe. They kept the traffic flowing around the works, there were never any temporary traffic lights and the new roundabout opened in record time.

I have always said, even when I lived in the UK, that roadworks is an industry there and if they got works done quickly UK unemployment would double.

In Spain builders work to daylight hours a lot of the time, your never see that in the UK.

Steve6

Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2023 2:06pm

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Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2023 2:06pm

In the UK they dig the road up to put pie work in and re cover it then the forgot to put in a cable or something else and dig it up again so it has to be re covered again 

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Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2023 4:53pm

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Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2023 4:53pm

Kenneth1 wrote on Sun Apr 23, 2023 10:07am:

A typical work day. 

I agree with dinnerout. A more appropriate title would be 'Road works in the UK' 

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