Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 11 Jun 91 07:37:38 GMT From: Wolf PAUL Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Looking for Inexpensive Outside Wire Message-ID: Organization: IIASA, Laxenburg/Vienna, Austria, Europe Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 452, Message 5 of 11 Lines: 44 > [Moderator's Note: > They have buried almost everything. > Of course, there are offsets to this: For the past two weeks, Bell > Avenue (the north/south street at the corner from where I live) has > been torn up for several blocks, all the way from Roseland Cemetery > north to Warren Park. Everyone is in on the act: I see trucks from > People's Gas, IBT, and the Water and Sewer Works all out there every > day, digging, laying new conduits, sewers, etc. They wake me at 6 AM > when they start tearing up the street. PAT] And you are really fortunate in that they are all in on the act all at once. About four years ago the footpath in front of my parent's house was dug up when they put in city water in an area which so far had individual pumps. About three years ago the path was dug up to put down Cable-TV cable. About two years ago the footpath was dug up to put down a phone cable (it had been strung on poles till then). About one year ago the path was dug up again when they put gas pipes in. About two weeks ago the path was dug up again when they put in a power line to a new subdivision down the road. Within the next year or so they will dig it up again to put down sewer pipes -- till now, everyone has their own septic tank. And in Vienna, Austria, these various utilities (except Cable-TV) are not private businesses, but departments of the federal gov't or city hall. But they cannot coordinate their schedules ... W.N.Paul, Int. Institute f. Applied Systems Analysis, A-2361 Laxenburg--Austria PHONE: +43-2236-71521-465 INTERNET: wnp@iiasa.iiasa.ac.at FAX: +43-2236-71313 UUCP: uunet!iiasa!wnp HOME: +43-2236-618514 BITNET: tuvie!iiasa!wnp@aearn.BITNET