we all heard about public sector spending cuts, many vulnerable people affected, yada yada, but what surprises me at the time during this economic turmoil is that  my local council still manages to find  money on resurfacing roads and pavements that are perfectly fine. Our road was resurfaced  a few weeks ago (yes, at night time, thanks for sleepless night) and now they are doing pavements. there was nothing wrong with them, they were perfectly fine, just like the road, it didn't have potholes or anything. it was fine. way to go to waste  tax payers' money.