I’m assuming that moving the power poles is also difficult due to property lines. I don’t know the rules in Australia, but in the US you’d have to convince the property owners to grant an easement to allow someone to install a power pole and perform routine maintenance on it. The easement is attached to the property, meaning the next owner of the property would be subject to the easement whether they like it or not. This can have a bad effect on property values and (I think) can have more significant legal ramifications.
I doubt this… “roundabout” is the product of pure incompetence. To me, it speaks of a disconnect between the project’s requirements and resources. There’s still plenty of room for incompetence there, but if you give someone an impossible task, they’ll generally do whatever it takes to tick the boxes in the “definition of done.”
source: I’m an incompetent person who has ticked boxes and suffered for it.
EDIT: I should clarify that this is all based off of the assumption that the power poles don’t have anywhere else they could move to without going on private land. Maybe that’s a stupid assumption. Maybe you work with power poles frequently and I’m a gibbering fool. If that’s the case, then I can only agree.
Are the two power poles cultural heritage? If not, they’re easy to move as part of such projects.
I’m assuming that moving the power poles is also difficult due to property lines. I don’t know the rules in Australia, but in the US you’d have to convince the property owners to grant an easement to allow someone to install a power pole and perform routine maintenance on it. The easement is attached to the property, meaning the next owner of the property would be subject to the easement whether they like it or not. This can have a bad effect on property values and (I think) can have more significant legal ramifications.
I doubt this… “roundabout” is the product of pure incompetence. To me, it speaks of a disconnect between the project’s requirements and resources. There’s still plenty of room for incompetence there, but if you give someone an impossible task, they’ll generally do whatever it takes to tick the boxes in the “definition of done.”
source: I’m an incompetent person who has ticked boxes and suffered for it.
EDIT: I should clarify that this is all based off of the assumption that the power poles don’t have anywhere else they could move to without going on private land. Maybe that’s a stupid assumption. Maybe you work with power poles frequently and I’m a gibbering fool. If that’s the case, then I can only agree.