Fibre optic trenches...

[CorneN]

So, who do I send invoices for car damage to???

In the beginning I tolerated this because it was for the better of all people in South Africa, but now it's becomming a pain the arse. Johannesburg CBD streets (like President, Pritchard, Mooi etc etc) has had these trenches for a while now.

From the looks of it, they never get filled propperly again. Some these trenches has been there for weeks on end. They get filled with dirt, only to washed open by rains again.

I need a new set of shocks and tires now...

 

[web]

how exactly are you going to prove the damage was caused by the trenches ?

 

[Kloofvreter]

I need a new set of shocks and tires now...

From the trenches? I smell a chancer here.

 

[wHiTe*LiGhTnInG]

Now, if only the Linutics could accept that just because it's *free* software, it isn't necessarily and automatically *good* software...

aswell at the software you can buy.

 

[CorneN]

Nope, ofcourse you cant prove anything is from the craters created for fibre optic cables. And, I am not reallty planning on billing anyone.

The point of the thread then? To bitch and moan about the idiots thats digging up inner city JHB and not cleaning up as they go along. Those who actually travel these raods will all agree with me. It's f'n nightmare.

 

[Kloofvreter]

aswell at the software you can buy.

The topic derailment master strikes again.

 

[portcullis]

We've just had our paved driveway lifted for the cable layers to do their thing and the guys said that the ground needs to "harden" before they can come back and fix their mess.

Meanwhile the bricks bordering the covered trench have started cracking because of our vehicles driving over them and the while mess is getting bigger by the day.

 

[stoke]

Yea, why don't they drill under driveways, and lay down a pipe in the drilled space?
Or ... what didn't you forsee this and put in a pipe before laying your driveway?
Isn't the driveway on public property?

Okay .. me stops before me is killed.
They have to return the property to as it was.

 

[portcullis]

Yea, why don't they drill under driveways, and lay down a pipe in the drilled space?

In my previous life I was part of a team that ran several long lengths of underground cable. We ran over 80km of ducting in Harare in 2000 without any of the mess that I've seen these past months in the Western Cape. We used a clever little machine called a Ditchwitch trench digger that cut the road / pavement, laid the duct (more commonly known as low pressure plastic irrigation pipe), covered the ditch and compressed it. All that the next team had to do was re-establish the surface.

The local trench diggers have one guy wielding a pick, three scoping the area to see what can be liberated later, two cooking food and two as lookout to keep an eye out for managers coming to check on them.

Or ... what didn't you forsee this and put in a pipe before laying your driveway?
Isn't the driveway on public property?

Before my time.
Where does public property end? 1m from the tarmac?

They have to return the property to as it was.

Oh they will...

 

[ambo]

Where does public property end? 1m from the tarmac

Public property ends at the boundary line.... ie. Your fence When will South Africans realise that the pavement is public and not just extra space for their prize winning roses

 

[CorneN]

The local trench diggers have one guy wielding a pick, three scoping the area to see what can be liberated later, two cooking food and two as lookout to keep an eye out for managers coming to check on them.

ROFL#@^$%&^%$!!!!


A property's boundry line might differ between Municipalities, but the general distance is 2 meters.

 

[overandout]

The local trench diggers have one guy wielding a pick, three scoping the area to see what can be liberated later, two cooking food and two as lookout to keep an eye out for managers coming to check on them.

Excellent!

At last an explanation why it takes four months to lay a 1km cable in a quiet suburb.