credit where it's due

[winterbadger]

The road menders did a very good job fixing the mess that WASA had made of our street. They detoured people out onto the mostly unpaved shoulder on the far side of the street while they were working, but everyone could get in and out and no one seems to have accidentally driven into the creek (which is on that side of the street).

Driving out past the work, I could see that appalling mess that the water board people had made. Basically, they tore off the road surface, chopped a big hole through the roadbed, dug a big hole through the ground under it to get to the main, then just filled in the hole with dirt and rubble to the level of the road surface and put some macadam down on top of that. No effort to repair the roadbed, no effort to grade the surface before tarmacking it. I think my nephews know how to repair a road better than that, and they're five!

So, thank you WASA for fixing the water main break, but no thanks for doing such a crap job of clearing up.

And thank you, road menders for clearing up after *them*!

Now waiting to see how the gas tap has been painted over this time...

Comments

[ban-leodhasach.livejournal.com]

I envy the fact you have a team that will come and repair the botch jobs facility companies leave behind!!

The roads in Edinburgh are an utter disgrace....yet the powers that be think it would be a better idea to spend precious funds on relaying orange cobble stones in Canongate! Why Edinburgh doesn't want to celebrate tarmac (a Scottish invention I believe!) is beyond me!!!