Signs of our times

TRAVELLING THROUGH roadworks on the Newell recently, I started thinking of the cost of the three groups controlling the traffic and how and why it is done this way. We will come back to signage, etc. in a bit.

There were two blokes standing on the side of the road (only one needed to operate the radio, but maybe they were simply chatting or changing shift?) about 500 metres down from the stop/go lights. They had a UHF and were calling trucks approaching the roadworks telling them: “Traffic stopped ahead, proceed with caution.” Then we had the traffic