A half-finished paint job on a Kent road has been described as a perfect example of “not my job, mate” culture.
Gas company SGN has been carrying out works in Dover Road and New Street in Sandwich throughout the summer.
The network upgrades are now finally complete - but that is more than can be said for the repainting of a 20mph marking near the Malcolm Waite petrol station.
SGN workers have only put a fresh coat of white on the sections of the road they had to dig up, leaving glaring gaps.
A spokesman for the gas company says it is “responsible for reinstating the areas we’ve disturbed”.
If the council maintained the road markings like they are supposed to then companies meeting their obligations to repaint markings would never make the news. It only gets picked up on when the original marking is basically non existent anyway.
Yeah, 100%. This is the town’s fault IMO - not maintaining the markings in the first place (it’s not the contractor’s fault that the old marking is non-existent), and then probably refusing to pay the contractor “extra” to repaint the whole thing.