In article , Halmyre
wrote:
On Wednesday, November 23, 2016 at 10:19:05 AM UTC, Another John wrote:
In article , Martin Brown
wrote:

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They enjoy tarring and feathering roads in autumn ...

Good expression! Very accurate.

Mind: it's got to the state now where we are grateful even for the
tarring and feathering.

BTW: the road they are closing was (*miraculously*!!) *properly*
resurfaced in 2015 (i.e. closed, planed, and whole layers laid down.
We suspect they're going to close it because BT want to dig a trench
the whole length of this new, silky, road in order to lay fibre.
Progress.

J.

Newly resurfaced roads are a magnet for service providers who simply itch
to dig a trench in it and then fill it in with low grade materials. Years
ago in Edinburgh they relaid a cobbled side street near where I lived.
Beautiful job they did. It had barely been completed when some service
provider came along, dug a trench across it where it met the main road,
laid their cable or whatever and re-filled the hole with tarmac.

and the local authority had the right to require them to re-instate
properly.

Round here when a road has been properly remade, the work often fractures a
water pipe or gas main but this isn't known about until the work is
finished.

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from KT24 in Surrey, England