Road Works speed zones

[aussie muscle]

While road works and the associated speed restriction are a necessary and important thing to have, i'm a bit miffed that RTA left a road site speed zone active over the long weekends in April (Anzac w/end). they had done some road works to resurface some of the road. It looked though, that they had totally finished. There were no disruptions to the road surface, all safety fences were up and even the painted lines were there, yet they decided for some reason to leave the speed zone in effect. Now, since this was a long weekend, it'd be another 3 days before anyone was going to be at the site, so if it wasn't dangerous, why was the speed zone in place.

before you think i'm just nagging, the same work zone was the in the same state earlier in the month on Easter long weekend. I did the posted limit, but i saw there were others that got pulled over (and on a double-demerit w/end too!!).

As the work zone is a temporary setting, it should not become an unnecessary inconvenience and given the push for motorists to respect work zones, they should never be active longer than necessary.

i was miffed enough to bring it to the attention of the NSW Transport Minister. Today i recieved an acknowledgement letter from his office saying they will look into it.

yeah, i know: