<div dir="ltr">I always wondered how much money councils kept in their coffers after charging for "restorations" and then waiting years to do the work....<div><br></div><div>Macca</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 8:52 PM, Sam Silvester <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sam.silvester@gmail.com" target="_blank">sam.silvester@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Mark Tees <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marktees@gmail.com" target="_blank">marktees@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Surely, councils could benefit by some sort of shared tunnel renting scheme? I know in Sydney city there is tunnel space rented from Telstra etc.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I know, I know, fairy land thoughts thinking that people might be able to work together to avoid additional work.</div><div> <br><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>I've seen a few attempts at this (e.g. councils either installing pit and pipe with the intention of it being used by other carriers / businesses, or allowing their own to be used). In my experience it's is rare for it to be the 'first option' however - either due to the costs and process involved, or limited space in the duct in question, or it just not being in a useful location. YMMV as always.<br><br>I'm aware of at least a couple of data centres where shared lead in pits are installed to minimise the number of building entries needing to be built, but it really comes down to the design of the facility and if they are aiming to make 3rd party carriers welcome or not :)</div><div><br></div><div>Also, co-builds are certainly a thing also to split the cost of a large civils build.<br><br>So to a point, your suggestion is actually happening. You'd possibly be surprised at how much cooperation does happen, but it isn't always necessarily that visible.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Sam</div><div><br></div></font></span></div></div></div>
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