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Digging up roads

Victor · 2003-09-02 16:46:42

(Yes it's on topic) Dublin City Council's Transport and Traffic Strategic Policy Committee will be meeting this Thursday to discuss a revised scheme for allowing network providers (including water, drainage, electricity, gas and communications in that order) to open public roads - any comments? Most of the submissions from…

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(Yes it's on topic)

Dublin City Council's Transport and Traffic Strategic Policy Committee will be meeting this Thursday to discuss a revised scheme for allowing network providers (including water, drainage, electricity, gas and communications in that order) to open public roads - any comments?

Most of the submissions from the utilities were of the "Waaa, waa, waa" type, even suggesting that service only providers without a physical network should have to pay as well (even though the won't be digging up roads). Otherwise, the network providers would be discriminated against by “government”.

Parallel topic here:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=113325

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#2 03-09-2003 1:01pm
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Victor,

would it be possible to post a link to the actual proposal so I can read up a little before responding ?

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got it

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#4 03-09-2003 11:45pm
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Victor,

Perhaps you could pm me on your phone number (perferably a landline) and we could discuss things further.

To be honest I have to say my own reponse when I read the document was pretty mute. The seem to have found reasonable middle ground between the original excessive charges and the original disasterous charges.

The new conditions operators will be obldiged to work under seem reasonable, Ireland already has a huge amount of backhaul in light of 230,000 km of fibre laid by the telcos and the ESB figure of eight, I just can't see anything that will cause a huge problem ....

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