Road closure to connect house to pole?

Hi - we are currently fed via overhead copper line which crosses the road. When they come to run the fibre cable, will they need to close the road? Or will the engineer just hold the traffic temporarily and dash across the road with it?

Wondering if I need to dust off my hi-vis and give them a hand holding the traffic! 🤣

Jonathan

He will climb the pole and cut the copper drop wire, then attach the firbe drop to it. Then, a colleague at teh house will use a winch to pull it across whilst it is held taught at teh pole.. That is how mine was done ... all 60+ metres of it.

I don't know why, but this has reminded me of an incident back in the 70's.
We had a delivery of polystyrene bedding plant trays, after the 'high sided' truck left us it took out all the phone lines along 1/4 mile of road, fortunately nobody realised it had delivered to us, or we would have never heard the last of it. 😁

Getting a customer to assist with traffic management / streetworks is as big a no no as there is for an Openreach engineer. But it is the wild west out there these days so if it a subby or altnet, bets are off.

In reply to a post by jawn22:

Hi - we are currently fed via overhead copper line which crosses the road. When they come to run the fibre cable, will they need to close the road? Or will the engineer just hold the traffic temporarily and dash across the road with it?

Wondering if I need to dust off my hi-vis and give them a hand holding the traffic! 🤣

Jonathan

I'm sure they won't need any help from yourself but best assess events on the day and see how things go.

They may not disconnect the copper wire, they will most likely leave it in situ.

I'm with an altnet, and they definitely didn't close the road. I didn't see them do it, but I'd think something like a long pole to hold the cable up, then a dash across the road.

In reply to a post by Grimers:

They may not disconnect the copper wire, they will most likely leave it in situ.

Out of interest are you talking from experience of this exact scenario or just guessing?

Thanks everyone. It's a somewhat premature question as we don't actually have FTTP serving the poles just yet, but I was wondering how they would cater for this. The thought of needing to get a permit to close the road each time they do a service installation seemed like a crazy slow/complicated way to do things...

In reply to a post by jawn22:

Thanks everyone. It's a somewhat premature question as we don't actually have FTTP serving the poles just yet, but I was wondering how they would cater for this. The thought of needing to get a permit to close the road each time they do a service installation seemed like a crazy slow/complicated way to do things...

I can currently see roads closure permits on two different roads near me for single customer overhead fed installations (FTTP is available) so some (probably very few) installations do need road closures.