The M3 is having work done on it to improve its drainage. During four daytime trips between Winnall and the M27 junction in the last week I counted only 25, 5, 28 and 2 workers being present there.

For this nine miles of M3 that represents at most one person every 500 yards and averages at half a mile apart. Surely at that puny rate of working it is going to take them well over a year to complete this work and motorists meanwhile suffer delays.

Why don’t the highways authorities instead award the contract to a firm that will put more workers on the job and run more daily shifts and thus complete it much quicker? Even if this is slightly more expensive the saving in delays to the motorists more than compensates for it.

There were no workers north of Otterborne so what is the point in closing off such a long length of motorway when they are not or hardly working on it? Why not work intensively on a shorter section and finish it before closing off another?

Liz Truss was castigated by some for recently comparing the British work ethic and the Chinese one. But when I worked in Hong Kong it was evident that their can do attitude and work ethic got things done much faster that we do in UK. They also do not mire themselves in endless futile planning controversies that delay projects for years, as per Silver Hill and the Station Approach. Design it once and get on and build it.

 

 

Edward Chase,

Hinton Felds,

Kings Worthy