Roadwork at midnight Posted by Katja on Jul 15, 2010 in Culture
In most countries even road workers have reasonably similar hours to everyone else. In the north of Sweden road workers work all night long in shifts, since it never really gets dark. They can continue working without being stopped by the lack of light like during the rest of the year. Another bonus about working around 2 or 3 in the morning is that there is hardly any traffic on the roads.
Are there more ways to make peoples work more efficient? Has your country/city done anything similar?
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Comments:
Rastik:
I’d love to have such workers at home (Czech rep.). It’s common here you don’t see anyone there even during regular working hours and road works and detours often last very long. Last year they were replacing tram rails in Prague and they decided to work even during the night to speed up the reconstruction. But that’s not common.
Minty:
In Australia Ive noticed its fairly common to get street work done by night, even thought its dark. Especially if tis a main road with a lot of traffic. They just stick up spotlights!