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Not long ago our local council resurfaced some of our roads. They made a very good job of it, doubtless at enormous cost, and the results looked very fine indeed as the resurfacing covered up a hodge-potch of various ugly repairs over recent years.
But their fine work didn’t last long because the gas company have been systematically replacing old pipes and, unbelievably in my view, started digging some of it up again. And, even though they have filled in their holes and patched them up, the result is once again a mess.
It would seem to a simpleton like me that, except for emergency work, the utility companies must plan their work many months in advance. So it seems odd that the council did not co-ordinate their work so that the resurfacing was delayed until after the gas company have done their bit. Is that too much to ask? Alternatively, perhaps the gas people didn’t tell the council what they were about to do.
It seems so often that a stretch of road is dug up by one utility, patched up and then dug up again by another utility. Perhaps, if there was co-operation between the utilities and the councils, then our roads wouldn’t look the mess they have become. As I say, there needs to be co-operation between the utility companies and the councils but how to achieve this is the hard part.
Perhaps one solution would be to insist that the utility companies completely resurface the roads they dig up. It would, of course, hit them in the pocket (and ultimately us I suppose) but it might focus everyone’s attention on co-operation.
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Not long ago our local council resurfaced some of our roads. They made a very good job of it, doubtless at enormous cost, and the results looked very fine indeed as the resurfacing covered up a hodge-potch of various ugly repairs over recent years.
But their fine work didn’t last long because the gas company have been systematically replacing old pipes and, unbelievably in my view, started digging some of it up again. And, even though they have filled in their holes and patched them up, the result is once again a mess.
It would seem to a simpleton like me that, except for emergency work, the utility companies must plan their work many months in advance. So it seems odd that the council did not co-ordinate their work so that the resurfacing was delayed until after the gas company have done their bit. Is that too much to ask? Alternatively, perhaps the gas people didn’t tell the council what they were about to do.
It seems so often that a stretch of road is dug up by one utility, patched up and then dug up again by another utility. Perhaps, if there was co-operation between the utilities and the councils, then our roads wouldn’t look the mess they have become. As I say, there needs to be co-operation between the utility companies and the councils but how to achieve this is the hard part.
Perhaps one solution would be to insist that the utility companies completely resurface the roads they dig up. It would, of course, hit them in the pocket (and ultimately us I suppose) but it might focus everyone’s attention on co-operation.
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