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join:2001-10-31
NOT Texas! | The alternative to underground/buried infrastructure is aerial; poles, transformers, wires, etc., with an occasional grouping of the necessary hardware to make modern life work hanging on the poles. All exposed to view and vulnerable to the weather, waiting for an ice storm or lightning strike.
Which would the neighborhood prefer? The occasional groupings of equipment without the wires. Cities have assessment districts to underground the utilities. ALL the utilities make the effort to minimize the impact. Typically they are on the side streets of the neighborhoods, but sometimes for logistical reasons someone gets "blessed" with an electrical transformer, or CATV equipment, or Telco equipment.
It's modern life with all the trade offs. Trash trucks roll down the streets early in the morning. No parking is allowed in front of our houses on Thursdays. The trade off is that all our trash mysteriously goes away every week and the streets get swept. |
