"If You Only Do What You Know You Can Do, You Never Do Very Much" - Tom Krause

We have all experienced the scenario of driving down a freeway, traffic is heavy but moving slowly, on our way to work or an appointment, when you see it; and something inside you deflates at the sight of it...'Road Works Ahead'.

Now this itself doesn't bother me; when you see road works the most important thing to remember is that they are being done to make the roads safer and easier for us to travel on, not because council just felt like ripping up the bitumen for the pleasure of it. What snoots me though, and I'm sure many of you, is when you see the road work sign with the new temporary speed limit attached to it and then....nothing. No works, no workmen, not even those bright orange witches hats blocking off part of the road.

I know these signs are warning drivers to slow to ensure the safety of workmen and other road users, but who are they slowing down for? Part of a main arterial I am lucky enough not to have to travel on has been under construction for 5 or so months and is now nearly finished. I don't think the interruption to traffic flow for that long is what is upsetting drivers who travel there, but the constantly changing speed limits leading up to and from the site of the works.

This is what drivers must manage when driving on this part of the freeway (no joke):

100km, 80km, 60km, 80km, 100km. Confused much?! Of course this part of the freeway (which is not even 2km) is littered with fixed or otherwise speed cameras, go figure! Coincidence? I think not. But that's a whole other story...

Ah, feel better after that vent. Now, I wonder at the price of the latest model vespa...