Poor detailing

A snap from the West Hill cycleway project, noticed more than once before.

A snap which illustrates the way in which the tactile lino tiles (noticed at reference 1) have been cut in around drain covers, a matter which neither the detailing architect nor the workmen doing the work gave enough attention to, resulting in the mess shown.

It makes one nostalgic for those far off days when the Mayor of Epsom could buy the borough drain covers with the name of the borough cast into the steel and when public workmanship of this order would never have been tolerated.

PS: assuming that is, that the 'Epsom' on this drain cover signifies the customer, not where the thing was made. I am not aware that we ever had any steel foundries in the area, but you never know - after all, we did have gunpowder mills. Pity I didn't take the picture the right way up. Pity the telephone has translated yellow ochre into something close to white.

Reference 1: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/golf-bores.html.