On 14/09/2018 12:02, Tricky Dicky wrote:
Round here although properties are served by poles the connection from the poles goes underground to the street cabinet. The only places I have seen cabling totally supplied by poles is in country areas and even then it disappears underground at some point to connect to the main trunk lines. I am surprised there are manholes in the road the vast majority are usually in the pavement perhaps the manhole ended in the road following a road widening. Even Virgin extending their network in the vicinity were forced to dig a trench along a road but the manholes ended up at either end in the footpath.

Here we have a section of road connecting two towns. It is about 6 miles
long, bordered by fields, grassy areas and the like for all exept 200m
of its length. Some years ago we had many, many months of disruption as
they entirely resurfaced it, with massive queues at rushhour. A couple
of weeks after they finished it, contractors dug a trench, snaking back
and forth along the entire length of it, to give one of the towns fibre TV!

SteveW