Probably the most staggeringly stupid allowance is how contractors tearing-up the road surface aren't required to return it to its original state, but only to an alleged "good condition"—read: for cars. This is presumably on account of the significant cost—to resurface a road costs about $1 million per kilometer ($3 million per kilometer for total reconstruction)—but as a result, we are left with ugly, bumpy, zig-zagging scars because Bell needed to lay some new cable or City contractors needed to make a utility cut.