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Abe

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These twits digging holes are now really starting to p me off. Is there nothing that can be done about it. The latest is Muvoni Weltex Network Technologies (only picked up the name because there was a bakkie next to the digging). They are supposed to be digging holes for Neotel (if one believes what is written on the internet) although Neotel said that there road works would be clearly marked as Neotel work. The main road in Lonehill has been decimated by the twaddle.

My biggest beef is that they dig these trenches and then fill the holes with sand. How long is that going to last? Already half of the holes are back open because of the recent rains. There are also parts where there trenches have made massive pot holes.

And why, on earth, can't they tunnel under the road when getting to an intersection. Eskom have had that technology for years.

I am all for better technology, but come on, the companies laying these things should be forced to put the roads back in the same condition they found them.
 
Drilling under the road is probably much more expensive and I doubt Neotel (or anyone else for that matter) cares enough about public inconvenience to pay more.

Last I heard the local government doesn't let anyone else re-tar the roads so they don't really have a choice but to leave it as is.
 
Abe said:
Warning, whining below

These twits digging holes are now really starting to p me off. Is there nothing that can be done about it. The latest is Muvoni Weltex Network Technologies (only picked up the name because there was a bakkie next to the digging). They are supposed to be digging holes for Neotel (if one believes what is written on the internet) although Neotel said that there road works would be clearly marked as Neotel work. The main road in Lonehill has been decimated by the twaddle.

My biggest beef is that they dig these trenches and then fill the holes with sand. How long is that going to last? Already half of the holes are back open because of the recent rains. There are also parts where there trenches have made massive pot holes.

And why, on earth, can't they tunnel under the road when getting to an intersection. Eskom have had that technology for years.

I am all for better technology, but come on, the companies laying these things should be forced to put the roads back in the same condition they found them.
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Had a good laugh here in PE the other day when the contractors rolled one of those cable ream things (must way a couple of tons) over an cable and then proceeded to lay the cable (which is most probably damaged now). Then in a couple of days when they realise the cable is not operational they are going to have to dig up the pavement again....

EISH
 
Not only in JHB and PE. They also digging up the whole of Cape Town. I think they laying optic fibre for Vodacom.
 
Wait till the rain washes out that sand. It's like driving through a canyon. ;)
 
CorneN said:
Wait till the rain washes out that sand. It's like driving through a canyon. ;)
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Fortunately I don't have low profile tyres as that must hurt like hell seeing it already hurts with normal tyres.
 
A colleague has received 2x R500 parking fines for parking outside her apartment in the only available spot because the rest of the parking on the road has been dug up. :P Who does she send the fines to? :)
 
It's Dark Fibre Africa that's laying the cables. They first fill up the hole with some of the rubble taken from the ditch, then pour cement. Finally they scrape a few centimeters out with a special machine and then tar over it. I'm currently trying to figure out how to get a connection to my house ;)
 
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