It does make you wonder how incompetent Yorkshire Water are
when this scheduled water main repair:
www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/news/Clough-Road-reopens-water-main-bursts-second-time/article-1171250-detail/article.html

couldn't have been moved forward to June when they had to repair much of the road when the 25in main burst. Even if the repair was not near the burst main, the entire road was closed for almost a week except for access, and they had the digging/road resurfacing plant on the site.

This ticks me off something rotten
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Thu 16 Jul 2009, 14:21, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

In their defence
you can't just suddenly pull forward a planned schedule of works by over a month, you would have to arrange additional men and plant and get all your permits to close the road etc. which you can't get overnight.

Or if you don't get extra men you have to take them off another job, so there is a hole in another road which stays open longer than necessary and the people near that get pissed off.

Sadly, fixing pipes means digging up roads, there is no way around it. I would rather they had started doign repairs a long time ago as the infrastructure is pretty fucked, but at least it is now happening. Which is better than having your bills going up becuase they can't help pissing large amounts of their water away through leaky pipes.

Stop whining.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 16 Jul 2009, 14:33, Reply)

But the bill's go up anyway.
It's about £470 this year. Fuck knows what it'd be if I had a meter.

It ought to be deregulated like the gas and electric were 12 years ago.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Thu 16 Jul 2009, 14:36, Reply)

Probably lower
You should have a meter, it makes you responsible for the amount of water you actually use, we're practically the only country in europe that doesn't insist on metering water.

A couple of months ago my direct debit went down as I was using so little water.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 16 Jul 2009, 14:39, Reply)