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Ahh and I thought the forever-construction sites were a Swiss thing. Every 20 km or so you'd have 1-2 km of road construction signage where nothing happens for a couple of years. At some point it just disappears, to come up again a few km down the road. Nobody here to explain us the phenomenon?

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There's an old joke that works almost everywhere:

Have you heard about the new invention that will allow <insert name of local department for handling road work> to lay off 90% of its workers?

A shovel that stands up by itself.

I had an eccentric Maths teacher at school who used to stare out of the window and make odd claims. One was that he was running a roadworks business using telekinetic powers, and all the people in hi-vis jackets were merely scarecrows.

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