Someone Did Not Think This Through,

signs powered by the sun, 

image credit Alamy, in Scotland do not receive enough sunlight to make them work! who would have thought it! the disclosure is a major embarrassment for the Scottish Government, which says it hopes to have ‘the best road safety performance in the world’ in just six years’ time, so let’s look at the record, East Renfrewshire Council admitted 65 per cent of its signs are no longer working and there is no budget in place to replace them, Glasgow City Council, where the figure is 50 per cent, say it’s five years since they last checked them, the official neglect has been condemned by the motoring organization, the AA, Scottish Borders Council say it has been forced to replace solar-powered units which have failed due to the lack of sunlight in Scotland, there is no inspection or maintenance regime in place in Highland or East Ayrshire and Perth and Kinross Council confirmed one of its signs has been broken for five years - with no plans to replace it, now what was the claim from the Scottish Government again? Here it is, Scotland will have ‘the best road safety performance in the world’ in just six years’, really? for the full article have a look here.