User:The Duncan

Hi I'm Duncan Campbell, and I have been doing traffic engineering as a trade for the past fifteen years. Traffic engineering is a branch of civil engineering, and basically involves designing and putting in things like road markings, traffic islands, roundabouts, traffic signals, cycle lanes and bus lanes to name but a few. It's actually a really interesting occupation I find, but some of the drawbacks include:

You have to really live in a decent sized city to do it

You have to deal with the public all the time, which can be both satisfying as well as frustrating. Many people think they know how to the job better than you.

You have to deal with stroppy politicians

Its pretty hard to work as an independant entity and still get involved in interesting design projects

There is a strong tendency towards conservative solutions rather than innovative ones - this is mainly driven by risk-averse mentality.