It tends to be the issue. The issue here, if you can appreciate it in your own home.... Again, these tend to be in older neighbourhoods. You have two issues. They are in older homes, with older people, so there is an affordability issue. In our neck of the woods, it can easily cost $3,000 or $4,000 to do the work, and we are just talking about the work to do the actual replacement. Now, if the private side runs under your driveway, under your favourite rose bush, up your walkway, or under your deck, the numbers can get quite substantial. As you can imagine, if you have a nicely manicured front lawn or a beautiful interlocking brick driveway or a concrete driveway, you just don't want to rip it up. That's really where the problem is. On the public side, we have every authority to do that.
On November 30th, 2017. See this statement in context.