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posted by emory at 10:36 AM
3 Comments:
whatever happened to the plan to underground utilities? With current emphasis on planting street trees and storm water infrastructure concerns it is a good time to consider a coordinated approach...
I never realized how many poles were in the sidewalk until I had a baby. Add to that the utter insanity of the every-which way (but the right way) curb cuts and the lack of sidewalk continuity and you'll see why I'm so often frazzled.
To share the woes/quirks of other cities:
tree in street
double poles
(And here would be the link to a utility pole erected in the middle of a turn lane, but I can't seem to turn that one up.)
Living in a world class city means having the luxury of inconvenient utilities.
Well, that photo speaks volumes...
Here in NYC, one example of right-hand-doesn't-know-what-the-left-hand-is-doing concerns street repaving. Some streets here can go for years without needed repairs, but once a street finally gets more than the usual crappy patch-job, it's often torn up again soon afterward because of some "unforeseen" problem, but as often as not it's the local telco or cable company wanting to lay down lines...but what happens to those lines, mere inches below the chip-seal, when the street has to get torn up again for another resurfacing?
(And, my block in Brooklyn still has telephone poles, even in the back yards.)
- Barrett
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