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Originally Posted by king10
The city doesnt rip up the sidewalks, utility companies like Bell, Alectra, Union gas do.
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The city does for water and sewer repairs. Alectra is municipally-owned, across a number of cities from Niagara to Barrie, but for water I think they only handle the billing and the city takes care of the pipes. However, the city does seem to replace the temporary asphalt with concrete later on... while other utilities do not.
Bell has gotten better, apparently, at least where it's possible and maybe it depends on the type of job. E.g., they were running fiber-optic cables through my parents' neighbourhood a year or two ago, and were able to thread them under driveways and such... that house has a wide concrete slab driveway (which made it ball-hockey central when I was a kid!) but no cuts were required.
But seeing fresh sidewalks in new subdivisions get ripped up for utility work has always made me scratch my head. I chalk it up to poor planning and coordination.