Power of the City

The country I live in, Holland, measures about 200x400 km, it's inhabited by 17 million people and it has a soft underground consisting of some mixture of sand and clay. For those reasons it's relatively cost-effective to move all the cables and pipe into the soil. Even those overhead power lines in the US look archaic to us. And the result is a street view that looks extremely neat and well-ordered. However, the chaos underground is no less than the one in this picture, and perhaps even worse. There's so much stuff put into the ground that nobody has any idea of what is there exactly. As a consequence, whenever they're working on a street nearby, it's more a matter of when than of if the power, cable, landline phone or internet goes down or the water or gas supply is hit. "Ordering is nothing but shifting chaos around", a math teacher once taught us in school. Also, the cable people seem to find it perfectly normal to break up the sidewalk right next to my flat at midnight and to close it up again at 2 or 3 AM using a vibrating plate tamper. What me worry?