What are their qualifications?

[G3CWI]

Do the people who make key decisions in Local Authorities Highways Departments actually have any relevant and up to date qualifications? If so I wonder what that are?

 

[Sterlo]

They can drive a car and sometimes even live locally, other than that...

 

[Milkfloat]

Judging by 99% of the 'cycling infrastructure' then they have no qualifications at all.

 

[raleighnut]

They can draw pretty pictures of smiling pedestrians and cyclists in some mythical utopia.

 

[Drago]

My BiL is a civil engineer who works on transport infrastructure. His premature baldness and the incompetence of the decision makers for which he works are closely linked.

 

[G3CWI]

Ours has the title Transport With Active Travel (or should have).

 

[gavroche]

What qualifications do you need to be a Prime Minister / a member of the cabinet?

 

[G3CWI]

What qualifications do you need to be a Prime Minister / a member of the cabinet?

None. But then neither does the elected Member with the Highways portfolio. I was curious to find out what qualifications the Professionals might be expected to have.

 

[Slick]

The decision makers will have the usual mix of university degrees and further education courses completed on the way up but the people whose responsibility to make their madcap ideas work are the engineers which would explain why we have some idiotic examples of so called infrastructure.

 

[Drago]

What qualifications do you need to be a Prime Minister / a member of the cabinet?

Well, you need to be elected, which most local transport decision makers are not.

 

[gavroche]

Well, you need to be elected, which most local transport decision makers are not.

I could never win an election cos I am no good at telling lies .

 

[tom73]

To be fair to Local Government Officers (having been one) they can only carry out what's in line with policies the elected clowns come up with. Which is mostly what ever pet project the leader and the now widely used carefully selected yes men in the cabinet agree with.
The only time most of use ever get to what really need's going is Purdah when they have to stay well out the way.
We got stopped from using qualifications on letters and emails as it was more customer friendly or something like that. I suspect it was more to do with not showing the elected members. Who just about have one or two gongs and the odd trade union certificate between them.