Back to school

Road workers in the US state of North Carolina recently revealed that they should have paid more attention in class. While painting a warning on a resurfaced section of roadway alerting drivers to a nearby school, the workers instead wrote shcool.
February 21, 2012 Read time: 1 min
Road workers in the US state of North Carolina recently revealed that they should have paid more attention in class. While painting a warning on a resurfaced section of roadway alerting drivers to a nearby school, the workers instead wrote shcool. The company responsible for the mistake said that this would be corrected. It is not clear if the workers were given lines as punishment for their error.

Related Content

  • Colorado river bridge relieves congestion
    February 7, 2012
    Built in the shadow of the Hoover Dam, a new bridge is set to takes its place as another major tourist attraction. Patrick Smith reports
    Read More
  • Bertha ends her Alaskan Way voyage in Seattle
    December 21, 2017
    Seattle's State Route 99 viaduct is coming down. David Arminas was on site. Bertha, the world’s largest diameter earth pressure balance tunnel boring machine, with a cutterhead diameter of 17.5m, is no more. Her 2.7km journey underneath the waterfront area of Seattle finished on April 4 and the power went off for the last time on an extraordinary TBM that had finally completed an extraordinary job. “A small sidewalk job would have had more impact on city traffic than we have had,” says Brian Russell a v
    Read More
  • US road safety is a cause for concern
    September 6, 2021
    There is concern over a worrying trend in US road safety, while there have been steady gains in road safety in Europe
    Read More
  • Drivewyze: US e-inspections on the rise
    February 18, 2022
    Drivewyze says that its weigh station programme is in a phase-one deployment that expedites CSA-crediting Level III inspections in station in the US.
    Read More

Highlighted Content