ECN Forum Forums General Topics of the Trade Non-US Electrical Systems & Trades When a utility company and a local council go mad.

Noticing one more pothole amongst the existing haystack is the least of our problems! Councils are renouned for mis-prioritising their responsibilities, given the amount of taxes they splash about on trivialities. If it had been a new 4" thick Axminster carpet for the CEO's office, it would have been moved pronto!

a classic example of the lemming society we all live in where the common attitude is: "nobody told me to use my own initiative...!"

I just left the "west coast," where the practice seems to be to place the poles so far off to the side that the 'puddle' of light falls nowhere near the intersection. Might make for nice map reading on the verge, though!