ConcreteThinking t1_isxasdk wrote on October 19, 2022 at 11:44 AM

Utility work is complex. Project management on this type of work is difficult. They certainly are not "blundering about". What do you need to hear to make you feel better? That BGE and their contractors are incompetent and disorganized? Because that is the furthest thing from the truth. BGE and Exelon know exactly what they are doing. That's why you get energy reliably for relatively little cost.

jabbadarth t1_isy84jy wrote on October 19, 2022 at 3:58 PM

I talked to some of the guys a few years back then they did mine and the toughest part is that they have to ohysically go into every single house in the city. In my house I had a finished basement so I had to cut a big chunk of sheet rock so theu could access the pipe. If I didn't have the tools or was some little old lady that process could have been a lot longer as contractors were called or the bge guys had to deal with it. They were telling me about basements they went in where they had to climb over decades of piled up junk just to find the pipes.

This isn't just digging up the street to change pipes it's connecting a pipe to every single house in the city with new meters new connections and all the issues of getting to the pipes in the first place.

Matt3989 t1_isxo27m wrote on October 19, 2022 at 1:39 PM

>Utility work is complex. Project management on this type of work is difficult.

This is true, which is all the more reason they might be "blundering about". Just because you work in an industry does not make you good at it. There are plenty of awful PMs in utilities.

Just look at the shit show that Central Ave is.