Public Transportation and Smart Growth

A crew digging a trench in the street sawed right through my internet connection. The crew is installing cable for a rival company.

I told them last week that there was a buried cable there. "Oh, we won't be working near that."

No, the supervisor did not mark the path the underground cable took. He did mark the pavement with a pink "X" where the machine operator and crew would be cutting. Apparently they took that as a sign to saw more resolutely. I pointed out to them the cut cable. The supervisor said he'd call in a service request.

At the end of the day, they filled in the hold with the cut cable, paved it over, and went home.