If it's against the law, then it should never happen, right? Also, I know a lot of people getting their own easements and not using the RoW. You can't be forced into anything except by eminent domain. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clayton Zekelman" <clayton@MNSi.Net> To: "Jean-Francois Mezei" <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>, "Jacques Latour" <Jacques.Latour@cira.ca>, nanog@nanog.org Sent: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 4:51:02 PM Subject: Re: Calgary <-> Toronto 100% Canadian Fibre Resiliency on failover The fibre optic cables are buried within the RoW, not on private property. It is against the law to dig without having utilities located first. At 05:23 PM 01/11/2017, Jean-Francois Mezei wrote:
But along rural roads like the 17, municipalities often are in charge of a strech of highway, and individual homeowners or businesses have their driveway to the road and may not call to locate cables before having fun with their backhoe.
-- Clayton Zekelman Managed Network Systems Inc. (MNSi) 3363 Tecumseh Rd. E Windsor, Ontario N8W 1H4 tel. 519-985-8410 fax. 519-985-8409