You are foaming at the mouth again snazy.
Your (misplaced) loyalty to this disastrous project shows no bounds.
I do not think we have had the honour of hearing a fuller explanation of why the water main was not replaced (not on this thread anyway) - just the passing remark made to blushingsnail that it would add too much time the the project.
There may well be a coherent reason, but adding time to the project is not it. The old leaky pipe was fully exposed. Would it have really added that many weeks to replace it? Weeks that could have been made up by not having to tip-toe around when building up the layers again?
In any case surely everyone would rather the job was done properly. This lovingly created stretch of road is literally undermined from the very start, by pipework that has come to the end of its life. These pipes were never designed to take the current traffic load in the first place.
I wish I could say I've benefited from reduced traffic during the works, but 'Perry Slough' is just as busy. I also sympathise with those on Westbourne Drive - pretty much all the traffic has been redirected their way.
And as already noted, this has also made the drive much harder to cross - especially as it has no pedestrian islands its entire length. (OK maybe 1).