Just a few short years ago, they tore up my street. New sewer, water, gas all buried snug as a bug. They even replaced all of the electric poles, New electric phone and cable/internet wire.
Now they are going along digging holes for access under driveways and I think I saw one of those trucks with a huge reel of orange, wire, cable, fiber optic? I have no idea.
Any ideas out there, or some help figuring out where to look for info on public works construction.
I am not outraged or anything, confused and curious though.
A)Going under driveways in which direction? From the street to the houses or running parallel to the street?
B)Was it orange wire or orange pipe? If it was just pipe, you might have a harder time figuring it out (at this stage) since it may very well just be a contractor laying the conduit under ground for some other utility to run their wire through.
Of course, you could poke around on your city’s website and look at the minutes for the last few months worth of meetings. Chances are that whatever is going on has probably been discussed multiple times and will at least be mentioned in the minutes, even if it just says “budget for fiber optic project on S Auburn St, approved”, buried in with everything else, but it’ll give you something to work with.
They’re turning all the houses into iHouses? What will Apple think of next?
The good news is that all the gardens will be walled.
I assume you meant “Fios”, a Verizon (or Charter Communications, under license) fiber-last-mile home network service. Maybe Apple autocorrect got too frisky? Apple is well-known for taking credit for almost any technological innovation from the last 30 years.
These color codes apply to the US. I see that orange in Australia is for electrical.
The colors apply mainly to the above ground markings, usually spray paint or flags. So if you see a lot of flags or paint markings before construction begins you can tell what is being installed. They are also now being used for the conduits so that if someone digs something up they can tell what it is/was.
Haven’t seen the workers (Contractors) doing the line, just the guy digging the holes. Neat machine though, digs the hole and sucks up the dirt. The holes are to go under the driveways and little sidewalks without tearing them up. Never seen it up close but they either dig horizontally, or just force feed through to the next hole. Flags all over, from gas, water, and buried phone lines.
I don’t want to bother them, if I can figure it out some other way. I will see if I can find anything out about town meetings.
AT&T or whoever don’t usually install it themselves. They contract it out. So the name on the truck isn’t going to directly help in id’ing the utility company. But a quick Googling might show the specialty of the company, etc.
A long run of fiber usually doesn’t require digging up holes very often. Unless it’s fiber-to-the-home* then you need access points in front of each home hence the digging at each driveway.
Or more likely: fiber-to-the-street-in-front-of-the-home-then-copper-the-rest-of-the-way.
They laid fiber under my house and the whole street. There’s a vault door in my front yard now, 2’ x 3’. It took many phone calls to find out WHAT it was down there.
Turns out it is fiber optic “infrastructure”, but not for public use. Purely private/corporate data, but my yard is apparently the right-of-way.
