CHRIS
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I think this is how the DOT (department of transport ) in the various US states work, if you want to dig up the road you will pay by the day and it is not cheap. the also run service ducts for all the cable and phone companies in an service easement which is normaly 5ft wide and either right behind the kerb or the sidewalk, the water is in flexable PVC pipe with a minimum of 4.5 ft cover and the storm water and foul sewer are never combined, thaey have a manhole at every change in direction and are never more than 249ft apart.
Penners, I think we will start getting more use from these gritters now all the roads have melted!!!! The snow is always a pain and you are right about plant etc but I think the problem is deeper than that. As a nation the country has no experience of serious weather, I have spent most of my life after 16 living in strange places such as Norway, Turkey, USA, NZ, and the middle east. All of which have serious weather (unlike here) i have been in over 50 deg in Arizona on the Mexico border and in -40 in Norway and you have to adapt by only working if you have to and wearing the right gear. Now when I see people on the tube wearing suits in 40+ temps and having had 4 beers with lunch I have no sympathy. If we are to survive hotter summers it is simple - learn from people in hot places such as spain or the USA etc and change our ways.
Its is still amazing to see peoples houses in the day with all the windows and curtains open and then at 9pm see them outside moaning that they are too hot - even I can not blame the goverment about being hot!!!!!!!
Penners, I think we will start getting more use from these gritters now all the roads have melted!!!! The snow is always a pain and you are right about plant etc but I think the problem is deeper than that. As a nation the country has no experience of serious weather, I have spent most of my life after 16 living in strange places such as Norway, Turkey, USA, NZ, and the middle east. All of which have serious weather (unlike here) i have been in over 50 deg in Arizona on the Mexico border and in -40 in Norway and you have to adapt by only working if you have to and wearing the right gear. Now when I see people on the tube wearing suits in 40+ temps and having had 4 beers with lunch I have no sympathy. If we are to survive hotter summers it is simple - learn from people in hot places such as spain or the USA etc and change our ways.
Its is still amazing to see peoples houses in the day with all the windows and curtains open and then at 9pm see them outside moaning that they are too hot - even I can not blame the goverment about being hot!!!!!!!
