You know, those long-suffering individuals who pay through the nose for the privilege of getting behind the wheel and are then treated like third-class citizens.

The same brow-beaten people whose commute through Hipperholme has been an ordeal for 18 months while improvements have been made to this most notorious of junctions.

And who now, having enjoyed just weeks free from cones, temporary lights and hideous queues, discover a section of it is about to be ripped up again.

Apparently Northern Gas Networks who own the county's mains system did not have the resources to lay new pipes when the road was closed.

Yet now when they have, can flex the muscle of monopoly and call the shots.

One Calderdale councillor who owns a newsagent's on Leeds Road sums up the feelings of virtually everybody who lives in Hipperholme or who is forced to travel through.

"They hold Joe Public in contempt," he says.

The company hopes to be finished in a week.

Who then? Yorkshire Water? Sundry electricity companies?