Anyone who’s been in Bayshore Drive, Byron in the last two to three months should rightfully be astonished at how unbelievably long it is taking to build a very modestly-sized roundabout outside the IGA and the TAFE College. And when asked last week how much longer this seemingly tiny job could possibly take to complete, one of the workers shrugged and said, ‘Probably by Christmas’.
I invite readers to search YouTube for ‘Japanese engineers fix massive sink hole in 7 days’. You’ll find many videos, some of them time-lapse, showing the awesome around-the-clock response of Japanese authorities when a massive sink hole 30m in diameter and 15m deep opened up under a major five-way intersection in Tokyo in 2016.
Despite many sewerage tunnels, communications networks, water, power and gas mains being severed, and the huge hole continually filling up with sewage, they completely restored the intersection to be fully functioning – in only seven days.
If our Council was doing that job, they’d take at least seven days to start their preliminary assessment, and then probably another seven years to finish the job.
It’s criminal the way our Council and their inefficient contractors waste our money. They should all be forced to watch the YouTube videos… and then resign.
George Lewin, Montecollum
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