Try, Try, Try Again

[not4me]

I think this is the 4th attempt to improve traffic flow at the Raby/Middleton Road crossroads. It would be interesting to know what the total amount spent over those 4 attempts has been.

A case of "If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again - after all, it's not YOUR money you're wasting."

http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/230k-scheme-planned-to-stop-congestion-in-hartlepool-1-6554110

[mk1]

Yo make the mistake of many. Assuming that 'improvement' is the aim.
It is not.
The work is being done because it can be done.
Cost is not a consideration.
'Improvement' is way down the list of  percveived advantages.
Money is being spent.
This allows those councillors living withing a 100 mile radius of any such improvements to boast:
I have improved the infrastructure.
I brought X number of jobs to the area.
I injected X millions  of economic activity into the area.
I listened to my constituents.
I lobbied hard for the improvements.
I really am the most perfect person you could ever elect.

The 'work'  itself is the thing rather than the outcome.

Perfect example is the way the trees on Victoria road/York have been torn down every 20 years or so and replaced with ............other trees.

Makework schemes from makework councillors on the make.

[Pwilson]

It scares me how councils appear unable to plan effective road systems with all their staff and expensive planning.

Yet when children make themselves race tracks etc they rarely create congestion.

[dowager]

£230,000

They're 'aving a larf

[grim reaper]

It will end up a quarter of a million pounds....I think we all know WHICH contractor will receive the juicy contract.