Roadworks or just traffic jams

I’ve just driven back down from the coast and you would not believe the amount of road works that are going on between 100 kms or so of road between Logan and the Sunshine Coast. At points it seems that the whole of the motorway is a road work zone. One thing that did annoy me tonight though was the change of speed limit signs for road works. Now I am all in favour of them lowering the speed limit when the road workers may be in danger but when the signs are put out and the traffic forced to slow down to 40km/h when there is nothing there is just pointless. It is so frustrating to sit there in traffic at 10 o’clock at night when you just want to get home. Words can’t describe how infuriating and exasperating it is. I guess the fact that there are so many road works about at this time because of the current state governments inability to conduct forward planning and put off costly infrastructure projects until the road system is so bad that there are traffic jams from before the sun rises, to well after it sets!