Local Council has done us. Official! (bad grammer on porpoise)
Where we live all the roads, (must have cost millions to re-tarmac), were resurfaced. Many of them, including ours really didn't need doing (do you know most councils have a 90 year road surface replacement strategy!)

I dont know how they got the contract, but locally, all our roads have been dug up by lovely Irish gentlemen to lay new gas lines.

As a tax payer, and a road user I couldn't possibly comment on who arranged this.

But I can comment on the stupid roadworkers hammering away the one morning I can take to have a lay in!

Screwed over by the council, they must know major gas works are going to be going ahead, its not a little leak, its several streets. So noise, and a lovely new road marred with shoddy fill in patches.
(feedingtimeatthezoo day 1 of his bikini diet started, Wed 8 Aug 2012, 12:14, 7 replies)

Yeah,
but the utility companies are paying the cost of the digging / refilling, so as a council tax payer it hasn't cost you any more.
(username failed moderation, Wed 8 Aug 2012, 12:32, closed)

True, but he has ended up with a shit road.

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Wed 8 Aug 2012, 12:38, closed)

That was the point.
They spend millions on resurfacing, then 7 months later gas workers come along and dig it all up. And wake me up!
(feedingtimeatthezoo day 1 of his bikini diet started, Wed 8 Aug 2012, 12:41, closed)

The council may not have known
I think some of the utility companies have the right to dig where they want with little to no notice to the council. Can't remember what it's called.
(SpangleDangle >->)))'>, Wed 8 Aug 2012, 14:06, closed)

Sounds like you live in Wrexham
I can't remember the last time I couldn't see roadworks somewhere within a two-mile radius. Then a couple of years later, they find out they've done a shit job and dig it all up again.
(Penguinbert killed Ken Dodd's dad's dog, Wed 8 Aug 2012, 16:25, closed)

Not long ago some cock stopped our water for a few hours.
Bad pun meant. When I asked him for documentation he clammed up and wouldn't even give me somewhere to ring if he didn't stop fucking with the water when he promised. I am 98% sure he wasn't just some twat trying to disrupt or poison the water supply but form his attitude you'd think I had no right to enquire whether he had the correct permits to fuck with the water supply for a few hundred people.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Wed 8 Aug 2012, 18:28, closed)

They're resurfacing the road near my house.
The tarmac guys have got the first layer of tarmac down on the bottoming, and the Scottish Water guys have *already* dug it up. The second layer isn't even on, never mind the surfacing, and already there are shitey big holes in it!
(gordonjcp, Wed 8 Aug 2012, 20:48, closed)