Mr Matt
join:2008-01-29
Eustis, FL
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| What is needed is utility easment police.  Unfortunately there seems to be no coordination between the various utility companies as to where they place their equipment cabinets. Unfortunately one homeowner won the hardware on utility easement lottery. They wound up with a Telephone Company Subscriber Line Carrier Cabinet and Terminal Box, Power Company Isolation Switch and Cable Company Node on their property. Almost their entire utility easement was filled with utility company cabinets. There should be a limit to the number of cabinets placed on one homeowners utility easement. |
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smokarz
join:2006-07-24
West Hartford, CT | if i have one of these boxes on my lawn, i'll call the cable guy out and have them blow it up into pieces. |
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 heat84Bit Torrent Apologist
join:2004-03-11
Fort Lauderdale, FL
1 edit | said by smokarz:if i have one of these boxes on my lawn, I'll call the cable guy out and have them blow it up into pieces. The economy is doing more damage to your property value than any V-RAD in your yard ever will. How much do think it knock of the price of your 5 million dollar house?
Why can't they put these in back yards with rest of the utilities? How many does there need to be per neighborhood? |
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Mr Matt
join:2008-01-29
Eustis, FL
kudos:1 Reviews:
·CenturyLink
·Comcast
·Embarq Now Centu..
·Millenicom
| said by heat84:said by smokarz:if i have one of these boxes on my lawn, I'll call the cable guy out and have them blow it up into pieces. Why can't they put these in back yards with rest of the utilities? How many does there need to be per neighborhood?  You can thank the Utility Companies and Developers for the location of utility cabinets and terminals. In the old days the utility cabinets and telephone poles were installed in the back yards of most homes. That way one cable could serve two rows of houses. Unfortunately the Utility Companies got tired of having to trespass on the homeowners property to gain access to their equipment and/or terminals. Furthermore each year there were several newspaper stories of how a Utility Company Employee left the homeowners gate opened and their:
Choose One or more:
* Their Three Year Old ran out into the street and was run over by a bus.
* Their pet goat escaped and ate their neighbors prize flowers.
* Their dog escaped and ate the mailman.
* Their neighbor's kid slipped into their pool and drowned.
Most developments that were built in the last Ten Years have all utilities located in the front of property. |
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heat84Bit Torrent Apologist
join:2004-03-11
Fort Lauderdale, FL | reply to Mr Matt
Where I live utilities are already in the back yard and there's no fences (except for one or 2 houses). |
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NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
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·SONIC.NET
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In the area where I live, utility poles were installed along public streets until some time around 1955, when codes requiring backyard poles were set up.
Things changed again in the mid-'70s, when utilities were required to be buried. Alas, buried utilities in back yards would be messy to maintain, so buried utilities are generally run under the public streets.
I know of about three B-Boxes within a one mile radius of my premises; all of them have had VRADs installed nearby. None are on private property, or in yards.
Others I have seen are along public thoroughfares, or near other utility cabinets, as in the parking lot of the Mitsuwa Plaza.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
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