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Why do you never see anyone working at major roadworks?

Roadworks … how do they work? Photograph: Scott Barbour/Getty Images

Why is it that whenever there are major road works nobody is working, but there are always men in hi-vis jackets standing in a group talking – and yet the work gets done?

Maggie Warwick, Leeds

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