Lamppost left in the middle of the road in Warsaw The lamppost was left sprouting out of the tarmac on a t-junction in the city's Wawer district following the replacement of a sewer and the creation of a new road layout. But workmen laid the road surface before local authorities and the electricity company had settled a dispute over who should take responsibility for moving the concrete post. Agata Smolarska, spokeswoman for RWE Stoen, the power company and owner of the post, said that responsibility lay with the local council. "The obligation to move the lamppost, which is still in its original location, lies with the council: the investor in the project," she told the Polish newspaper Fakt. The paper reported that after weeks of arguing the council had agreed to move post but just when it will find a new home remained unclear, and so the road remains blocked to traffic. The case highlighted problems in Poland over a lack of co-ordination between the public and private sectors on infrastructure projects. There are frequent complaints that infrastructure projects are delayed or disrupted owing to both sides failing to establish who is responsible for what.