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A specialist firm tasked with transforming the Capital into a ‘Gigabit City’ has been accused of leaving a trail of destruction by botching hundreds of road repairs.
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"Firms accused of leaving record number of botched road repairs"
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Posted 8 years ago #
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I wonder what that is as a percentage? A record-breaking defect count for a potentially record-breakingly large project is probably expected is it not?
Sounds like they are engaging positively with the problem though, which is good.
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City Fibre is currently connecting up all the CEC schools. You'd think the council would have a bit more control over them.
In City's defense those most of their reinstatment is good quality and their traffic (and pedestrian) management is well above average.
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Hinds: "As a council, we have taken every measure we can to encourage the companies to make improvements."
Why not just ban those companies from carrying out roadworks in the city? That would "encourage" them to work to acceptable standards.
(Surely if the city owns the roads, they can say who can dig them up.)
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"(Surely if the city owns the roads, they can say who can dig them up.)"
Well you'd think so but -
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Posted 8 years ago #
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Well you'd think so but -
Then that needs to change. When a company can get away with shoddy work, it'll do shoddy work.
If the current system offers no protection to road owners, it's a lousy system designed to screw taxpayers.
Allowing councils to ban shoddy companies would fix this overnight - in perfectly just way.
Posted 8 years ago # -
I contacted city fibre about a tarmac repair on the footpath past Craigmount High School which was done in hardcore rather than tarmac. Their initial response was positive in so much as they said they would investigate. Unfortunately it was also their last response.
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