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Waterloo has been 'worked on' for months now - totally crazy. Should have just closed over whole weekend and get it done. It's not rocket science to lay tarmac and the more they hang around half-finished with associated new layouts and bollards etc, the more likely accidents are to occur. A case in point was down on Peckham Rye west side, junction with I think it's called East Dulwich Grove (or road), temporary lights made the junction even more dangerous and snarled up, hardly ever saw them working on it over a period of weeks and possibly months, and then a ten year old schoolgirl was killed crossing there.
And what happened?
Later same day they had a team working there into the evening and got it finished in a matter of hours. I might be a cynic but that really takes the gateaux, and in some part I've no doubt, this terrible mess contributed to the girls death with people jumping short temp lights, obfuscated vision etc.
Disgusting. Honestly. How hard can it be to fix these things.