What's up with these vestigial telegraph wires? They run for two blocks in my neighborhood and they have no taps anywhere. I wonder what it would take to get the activation energy to remove such visual blights.
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Not sure which one specifically you're talking about but poles in general have a bunch of cross easements. It's why Berkeley is filled with half a pole strapped to another pole - it was too hard to coordinate removing services/easements for the remnant so they just literally bolt it to the new pole
From the bottom up we have cable, telco, fiber, telegraph(?), low voltage, high voltage. The 16 crossing telegraph wires are the ones I was referring to. Superficially, they have no purpose. They aren't tapped anywhere. Your point is exactly what I meant: I bet nobody knows who holds this easement.
I'm imagining they are owned by the heirs of the Manifest Destiny Electric Tele-Graph Company, the last surviving shareholder of which can be found in an iron lung in Erie County, and there is some special federal law controlling their removal.
As PG&E replaces 100 year old utility poles, the result is often a patchwork of old & new. Telco/cable companies aren't participating. Wonder how much of that overhead copper wiring is still being used.
🎶 Once the wires go up, who cares when they come down? That's not my department ... 🎶
I’m still extremely salty that my neighborhood offered to pay to underground our wires, PG&E quoted us a ridiculous price, so now instead, ratepayers are paying PG&E to replace all our poles one by one.
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🎶 Once the wires go up, who cares when they come down? That's not my department ... 🎶
Each time, the entire neighborhood was notified that power would be off for most of the day.
All told, 6 power outages in our ‘hood in the last 8 month. Great work PG&E.
their inability to coordinate replacing multiple aging poles on the same block is astounding.