We've Seen It.

[TWR]

They dig up the Pavements, / roads, Utilities Services, within weeks the surface become like the surface of the moon, should the Utilities company be made to do the job right in the first instance instead on the inconvenience to the Public?

[Graham-W]

First, set up a committee of:
a/ A member of the Highways dept.
b/ A representative of Open Reach
c/ A representative of Transco
d/ A representative of the National Grid
d/ A politician or three.
e/ A few local councillors

Get them to discuss, at length, any works which are to be done in each of several thousand different areas of Britain.
Pay each representative a reasonable wage.
There will then be no agreement over what order work is to be done, or any money to pay for it.
Therefore no roads will be dug up. Job done!

[BRIGHT SPARK]

Each service company should use a different coloured tarmac...red ,green orange,pink..........this would brighten the place up a bit and we could tell at a glance who is responsible for the shoddy work.

[DaisyNonna]

Eminently sensible bright spark. Fancy some colour in life!

[Old_Geezer]

If we had one ruddy great tunnel under the pavement they could all just drop into it from a manhole and look at their own little pipe or trunking along the walls. No more digging up (except in exceptional circumstances).

[sigma]

It's just not digging up roads that causes a waste of money. In a village where I used to live all the road markings were renewed, a week later a covering of preventative maintenance grit was applied to all the roads obliterating the freshly painted road markings.

[maggiebee]

I read in our local paper that a utility company had to return to re-instate a road surface they had left in a shocking state. Maybe needs a clause in the contract so there can be no argument about it.

[Dodger666]

In our area the local council can't even repair pot holes properly. They just dump in a load of tarmac, level it off then come back a few months later to do the same thing again.

[Iggle Piggle]

On a project to lay a new huge sewer pipe down a stretch of road, the chief Engineer decided to contact all the relevant utilities to see if they wanted to share the hole in the road. No-one said work was imminent so the pipe was laid, backfilled, tarmaced to a high standard and the work completed. No more than 2 months passed before a slice was dug into the new surface for some cables...
Barmy.