Schipperslaan again confronted with a street being dug up

Residents of Schipperslaan in Bruinisse have been experiencing inconvenience for months due to work in their street. Less than two months after a large-scale redevelopment was completed, the street will reopen in early January. This is leading to growing annoyance and questions about the efficiency of the approach. The work is part of a larger project in Bruinisse, which also involved Schoolstraat, Noordstraat, Meidoornstraat (Eendenpit) and Schipperslaan. The sewerage has been replaced and the streets have been redesigned. In anticipation of this work, all cables and pipes have been replaced on behalf of Stedin. Work started in Schipperslaan at the end of June last year. The street was redesigned into a residential area and all underground infrastructure, gas, water, electricity and sewerage, had to be replaced. The work took place in several phases. First, the street was dug up for the gas pipeline, then closed again. The street was then reopened to replace the water pipeline up to the water meters at the houses. The same procedure followed for the electricity cables. According to residents, this phased approach is driven by liability issues: different parties are responsible for different pipes. If multiple disciplines are working simultaneously in the same trench and something goes wrong, for example, a gas leak, it's unclear who is liable, as Robbert van der Helm, one of the residents of Schipperslaan, understood.