How do road works work in this country?

Posted by Early_Enthusiasm_787@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 120 comments

Been travelling across UK in last week and every road works I have seen seems to have very few workers or are completely empty. Only time I saw more than half a dozen people at a site, it had one person with a shovel and 5 others standing around watching. How do they work? Do they drag out jobs as long as they can? Or work at a slow rate or something? No one ever seems to be working. I don’t get it.