Residents of a town have been left "gobsmacked" at an apparent botched restoration of a 'No Entry' road sign by telecoms firm staff who had been working in the street.
A team from fibre network CityFibre had visited Brook Street in Woodbridge to lay down new cabling, but left after only repainting parts of the lettering on the road surface, which is provided to warn motorists.
Images obtained by the EADT show that only small fragments of the letters E N T R Y had been restored - with drivers seemingly having to guess what the rest of the word might be.
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Passer-by Steve Stegman, who took the pictures, described his disbelief at witnessing the apparent shoddy workmanship.
He said: "There were several liveried vans around Brook Street, including Openreach, but at the time I didn’t take much notice, assuming they were doing a good job.
"It wasn’t until they left that the true extent of their work was visible.
"Talking to some of the residents, who are gobsmacked at the sheer idiocy of the work, they feel their street will become a joke in the town."
He said someone in Suffolk County Council's highways team must have signed off the work as "satisfactory", but should check the contract to see what condition the street should have been left in.
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However, a CityFibre spokesperson said regulations only required staff to restore the lettering that was directly impacted by the works.
He said the lettering was already so faint before the works began it was "barely legible", but said as a "gesture of goodwill" to residents, staff would be returning to make the full wording clear to motorists.
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A spokesperson for the county's highways team said: "These works were not completed by Suffolk Highways.
"Utility companies are only legislatively required to replace the road markings within the area of their excavation.
"However, it has been agreed that the utility company will return to complete the full extent of road markings at this location."
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