Heathen incompitent utiliy co's.

[GROWLER]

Dunno about you lot, but 'round here we've had absolute roadwerk carnage and horrendous amounts of gridlock, road rage, diversions, temp traffic lights, sometimes up to 4 way, and bloody road closures on main aterial routes for months on end for the past five years.

They're ALL at it now. Gas water and leccy. It's getting worse not better.

The final straw is the water board bastards. The main culprit. 

They closed the main school run road off in June, causing absolute and unbelievable chaos and gridlocked diversions every rush hour.
It finally re-opened just 3 weeks ago, albeit with various abandoned craters that haven't seen any activity other than the local yoofs pushing all the helf and saftee barriers and cones into them.
WHY don't they finish the bloody job off and piss off? WHY!!!!!

Now, and almost unbelievably, their total and gross incompitance has revaeled that they've fitted the wrong diameter water pipes, and THE WHOLE BASTARD LOT has got to be dug up YET again and rectified!

Who are these gormless breath wasting useless morons actually employing? Chimpanzees?


I'm rapidly losing the will to live. I may actually commit murder soon if I haven't topped meself

[Uncle Mort]

London is currently replacing it's Victorian water mains. There are holes everywhere. 

[Miss Demeanour]

I have often wondered why the utility companies can't organise joint works ...thus reducing inconvenience etc . Having recently had experience of trying to get them to do this I now understand why.

It all comes down to feckin insurance , licences . permits etc etc etc 

They are only insured if it is their contractors that dig holes and carry out works etc.... even if they attend site at the same time

Bonkers

[Snoopy]

In Holland utility companies have to clear all proposed work through the local council. Where an application  to carry out maintenance is received all other utility companies are asked if they wish to do any work on that stretch of road. If they say no they are barred from digging up that road for a period of 12 months except in an emergency. All applications have to have an agreed time limit and if the work overruns fines are levied.
As a system it works.

[Darwins Selection]

In Holland utility companies have to clear all proposed work through the local council. Where an application  to carry out maintenance is received all other utility companies are asked if they wish to do any work on that stretch of road. If they say no they are barred from digging up that road for a period of 12 months except in an emergency. All applications have to have an agreed time limit and if the work overruns fines are levied.
As a system it works.

Holland is a bit of a special case. Dig a hole in the wrong place and the country sinks. 

[Nick]

 

[Snoopy]

In Holland utility companies have to clear all proposed work through the local council. Where an application  to carry out maintenance is received all other utility companies are asked if they wish to do any work on that stretch of road. If they say no they are barred from digging up that road for a period of 12 months except in an emergency. All applications have to have an agreed time limit and if the work overruns fines are levied.
As a system it works.

Holland is a bit of a special case. Dig a hole in the wrong place and the country sinks. 

You are not the first person to mention that.

[Just One More]

In Holland utility companies have to clear all proposed work through the local council. Where an application  to carry out maintenance is received all other utility companies are asked if they wish to do any work on that stretch of road. If they say no they are barred from digging up that road for a period of 12 months except in an emergency. All applications have to have an agreed time limit and if the work overruns fines are levied.
As a system it works.

Which is more or les the exact system we have in this country

[GROWLER]

All well and good, but my main gripe/rant/rage/bladder bursting moment on this particular occassion is the total and utter gross incompitance at the absolute highest and never before reached level, and quite frankly unbelievable slip shod bloody almost criminal stupidity of this rancid disgraceful bunch of tossing bacterium brained wankers that have let their equally useless clueless donkey headed arse hole contractors to fit and install the wrong heaving bastard sized pipes in the first place. YOU NEANDERTHAL BRAINLESS UTTER TRASH.
It took them 5 tortuous months of living hell for us all for them to do the job INCORRECTLY, and now we're all going to have to endure it again as from yesterday!

The bloody council are going to get the overflowing roth of my now uncontrollable incandesent blazing rage tomorrow. I'm absolutely livid.
Heads should swing for this, and I'll be the first in the que to pull the lever.

Who's going to pay for all this buffonery?
Well let's think ey?

Oh, btw. "United Utilities would like to apologise for any inconvience caused"

You mealey mouthed tossers. Go rot in hell!

[Snoopy]

I suspect there is more than a measure of satisfaction in Downing Street at this method of keeping the unemployment figures down. After all Gordon did say that Government would bring forward all sorts of public works/repairs/replacements to boost the economy 

[Nick]

All well and good, but my main gripe/rant/rage/bladder bursting moment on this particular occassion is the total and utter gross incompitance at the absolute highest and never before reached level, and quite frankly unbelievable slip shod bloody almost criminal stupidity of this rancid disgraceful bunch of tossing bacterium brained wankers that have let their equally useless clueless donkey headed arse hole contractors to fit and install the wrong heaving bastard sized pipes in the first place. YOU NEANDERTHAL BRAINLESS UTTER TRASH.
It took them 5 tortuous months of living hell for us all for them to do the job INCORRECTLY, and now we're all going to have to endure it again as from yesterday!

The bloody council are going to get the overflowing roth of my now uncontrollable incandesent blazing rage tomorrow. I'm absolutely livid.
Heads should swing for this, and I'll be the first in the que to pull the lever.

Who's going to pay for all this buffonery?
Well let's think ey?

Oh, btw. "United Utilities would like to apologise for any inconvience caused"

You mealey mouthed tossers. Go rot in hell!

You seem displeased