Stop digging
Roadworks are pestilential, and far too cheap and easy for the diggers
GOODBYE Britannia. A line of traffic cones protecting a hole in the road would be the perfect emblem for modern Britain. The country's highways are plagued by countless excavations and street works, which to the fury of the natives and the bafflement of foreign visitors, seem never-ending. Now public impatience is boiling over, especially in London, where traffic congestion just gets worse and worse.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Stop digging”
From the October 26th 2002 edition
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