Remeber RAMP? Well, it only took six weeks but the men from the Council finally fixed the road. This is actually an interim shot and they’ve now covered it in a fine top coat which makes it a lot smoother. Nice job, chaps!
However, the red and white signs proclaiming “RAMP” remain and prompted me to wonder if this wasn’t perhaps the name of a new, and as yet uninhabited, micro-hamlet and we’d simply missed the planning notice in the local paper. Don’t laugh, it could happen!
Imagine…a terrible homage to the “new town” where the full folly of Le Courbusier arrives at its (il)logical conclusion. All road…and no people! Welcome to Ramp (population: zero…but aren’t the streets clean?)
Then I pulled myself together and remembered that I wanted to repost this old composite snap of happier times on the nicer bits of road around here…
R:B
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October 7, 2008 at 8:08 am
disgruntled
That ‘Slow’ looks home made – are your roads department a bit rustic, or are the locals doing a bit of diy road painting?
I think I recognise some of those road surfaces … nice until you want to stop suddenly. Or steer.
October 7, 2008 at 10:03 pm
R :: B
Department? I don’t know if we even have a Department! Perhaps a Bureau… Whay don’t we use that more often these days, eh?
You’re prefectly correct, of course. The choce is to ride in the ruts or on the camber…