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I sure hope they don't need to open up roads(lane closures) to pull the fiber. Traffic is already agonizing, closures would make the commuting nightmare even worse for cars, buses & bikes alike.

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Hopefully they're laying conduit with new road construction. I read somewhere that there are proposals to mandate that (can't remember if it was state or federal level).

Edit: seems like it's both:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/natio...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/10/fed-u...

https://www.csg.org/pubs/capitolideas/enews/cs41_1.aspx

https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/50leg/2r/bills/sb1402s.htm

AFAIK in Germany you are required to allow others to lay stuff in the hole if you dig the street up. So if fiber is not placed in there, that means no one is willing to pay for just the fiber, which is only a little part of the cost of doing full FTTH. Oh well, if the distance was more than the 5 or so meters recently in the neighborhood, I might have considered just placing an empty pipe with fan-out/splice boxes at the ends into the hole. But for just 5m it's hardly worth the effort.

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