Northampton yellow jackets out

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Fri 27 Mar 2009 17:37
Northampton yellow jackets out - Niallster
Just got in. Guys with yellow Hi Vis jackets on pretty much every corner throughout Northampton plus cars parked up on every major junction containing two guys in yellow jackets. Everything from a Tuareg to a rusty Vectra so assuming not Plod.

Anyone know whats happening?
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Fri 27 Mar 2009 17:47
Northampton yellow jackets out - PoloGirl
Traffic survey?
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Fri 27 Mar 2009 17:50
Northampton yellow jackets out - doctorchris
Sounds like traffic surveys.
Expect lunatic changes to your road junctions in the near future.
These changes will slow everybody's journey down because they will be primarily directed at letting buses through, but will fail even to achieve this since traffic engineers seem only to ride bicycles or walk wherever they go.
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Fri 27 Mar 2009 20:47
Northampton yellow jackets out - nortones2
I think it fairly obvious that traffic engineers don't cycle very much. Nor do they walk far, except on site! Otherwise faux cycle-lane markings, less than a mans shoulder width, would not be strewn about willy-nilly, to the confusion of all.
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Fri 27 Mar 2009 18:42
Northampton yellow jackets out - Vansboy
Just got in. Guys with yellow Hi Vis jackets on pretty much every corner throughout
Northampton plus cars parked up on every major junction containing two guys in yellow jackets.
Everything from a Tuareg to a rusty Vectra so assuming not Plod.


Assuming the occupants are Government employees, in one way or another, I do hope they've all got proper insurance cover, for using their vehicles for work.

& have completed the H & S forms, to appraise & assess, any hazards, from the vehicles, or their (rusty) condition.

VB
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Fri 27 Mar 2009 19:10
Northampton yellow jackets out - Bromptonaut
Seems to be a regular, maybe annual, traffic count at junctions etc. Operatives seem to be either students or pensioners armed with clipboards and mechanical or electronic "click counters". They'd normally be at Jimmy's End, Harvey Reeves Road and again at the station.

Mucked up their station entry figures by one today as I went into London from MK.

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Fri 27 Mar 2009 19:26
Northampton yellow jackets out - bell boy
these jobsworths parked near me the other year on our local green well kept verge sat in their car munching jam sandwiches i made it quite clear they moved their car off the grass and parked it on a side road ,they said they needed to sit in their car, i argued they didnt,i won the argument but we never got the kids crossing and they got wet
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