Darkmuse

This page contains some gems and was presumably written by an Englishman to help out American and Canadian visitors:
http://freespace.virgin.net/john.cletheroe/uk/edrive.htm

“Road works (construction zones) are common throughout Europe. In Britain road work tends to consist of piecemeal temporary repairs rather than the wholesale rebuilding common in the USA and Canada. Alternate one-way traffic through road works tends to be controlled by temporary traffic lights in Europe rather than by flaggers (flagmen and flag-women) as in the USA. In Britain road works, even for the most trivial of repairs, often persist for many weeks with little apparent progress, instead of being completed within a day or two with the road being closed as in the USA and Canada. In Britain cones are often used to mark off large sections of roads for the workmen to park their own cars. Often one or more lanes of a road are coned off for many miles and long periods of time for no apparent reason.”

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