21.11.10 Roundabout £500k

Times are hard, and priorities have to be considered.  In such circumstances, it is unbelievable that some projects carry on regardless, whether worthwhile or not.  Take the local (to me anyway) "upgrade" of two roundabouts.  For many years, these two round things have served the public quite well, allowing vehicles to pick a route and in some cases change the general direction of their travel to coincide with their planned journey.  All that was required was an ability to know that clockwise was (and still is) the preferred convention.  Now, even in this part of the country, the very thickest cunts can do that!

The two roundabout had existed unchanged for so long that there was no issue for drivers negotiating them.  Sure, at rush hour, there were build-ups of traffic, but cars can't be made to disappear.  The council was obviously anxious to spend loads of money, and came up with a hair-brained scheme.  The work undertaken includes:

• Planting trees in the middle of one of them. [How the fuck can that be either necessary or advantageous?  It simply means visibility is reduced.  Two dozen massive trees, requiring many people and JCBs for no benefit is utter madness.]
• Traffic lights installed for the five routes into one of the roundabouts.
• Minimal road widening, with new kerb stones all round.  [Nothing wrong with the old ones.]
• New signs, including one black & white arrow sign that's about 30 feet long!  [Every cunt knows to turn left!]
• New road markings all over the place.
• Dozens of men at work for very many weeks, not to mention the advance planning etc.

There's no way it will have cost any less than half a million.  And as the work starts to draw to an end, what have we now got?  Two fuckin' roundabouts, offering nothing that the old ones didn't - except unnecessary delays when the lights are red but fuck all's going through a green set!

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