Down The Sewer Pipe – Politically Speaking

Most of the elected people that I know, and I do know a few, have no idea of how to incorporate an upgrade of their utility infrastructure by using a street repair program. Street repair is normally just the street, as opposed to street, curb, gutter, sidewalk, water main, sewer main, telecommunications and the electrical hardware

The most common complaint by people about roads is, why do they fix the road only to knife it open two to six weeks later?  The answer is, the elected officials do not have a clue as to how to make it all work together.  With most towns and citys having infrastructure that is older than fifty years, some locations are still using cast iron sewer pipe, the cost can be exorbitantly expensive to upgrade everything all at once.

There is a method, and the proper way, to get the thing done is to have a law.  This ordnance would apply equally to all city run utilities as well to all other utilities. Simply speaking the ordnance would tie infrastructure up grades to tie road repair program.  County, state and federal roads would be exempt, because they are our of your local jurisdictions.  

The road ordnance would be lined to a road repair master plan.  This plan would identify, classify, and have a date cretin when the road is to be repaired.  All utilities, every service private or public, would be notified a year in advance of the next road repair date.

In the ordnance if any utility, private or public, opens the road within fifty years of the finish of paying they get a fine. This fine would be ten thousand dollars a month, in addition to paying for the complete repaving of the entire ,just completed, road repair project. You could require all telecommunications to be placed in conduit, underground, for further expansion.

The beauty of this is that all of the aging pipes, and wires could be replaced at once.  If you your road project is a block long, then all of the utility stuff gets replaced for that block.  If it is a mine long, then a mile of new sewer and water pipe get upgraded. 
And if the utility opens the street, instead of willingly participating in the upgrading program, then they pay for the repair of the road.

This is a good deal for everyone, and real nifty method of putting fiber optics every place in your town.

Sherman