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I think one of the things that make a city, whether it's Morgantown or any other old city, look trashy is the overhead electrical lines, cable lines, phone lines that are heavily strung along roadways like Beechurst or the Mileground. I wish they were able to bury them all when they do the road widening projects.
I absolutely agree with that. The current administration plans to spend almost $3 billion on infrastructure, an only a small portion of that in our area in spite of the obvious need. You'd think they would at least bury the overhead lines, but that is not in the plans. I'd be in favor of the county stepping in and doing it.
I think one of the things that make a city, whether it's Morgantown or any other old city, look trashy is the overhead electrical lines, cable lines, phone lines that are heavily strung along roadways like Beechurst or the Mileground. I wish they were able to bury them all when they do the road widening projects.
Yes, and it is not just for esthetic reasons; the biggest reason for this (and I agree with others that the cost is worth it) is to prevent power/cable outages from storms, car collisions, etc.
I absolutely agree with that. The current administration plans to spend almost $3 billion on infrastructure, an only a small portion of that in our area in spite of the obvious need. You'd think they would at least bury the overhead lines, but that is not in the plans. I'd be in favor of the county stepping in and doing it.
I don't know the specific circumstances in Mon County, but elsewhere, the electric utility owns, installs and maintains the poles. The electric wires are at the top of the poles. The telephone company pays the electric utility for the use of the poles and their wires are the lowest ones. The TV cable company (and sometimes others) has a similar arrangement, with their wires being between the electric and telephone wires. I would assume that the county has no authority to order the utilities to undergo such an expensive project to bury all the cables. They COULD legislate that new installations be underground.
These road widening project seem like a perfect opportunity to move utilities underground. They typically expand the right of way which often includes new sidewalks and curbs, etc.
Some utility companies will also negotiate discounts with cities to bury their lines as they don't have the future cost of tree trimming, repairing lines from ice or windstorms, etc. It's STILL very expensive. Though I am surprised it was not done when they had to replace all of sidewalks anyway to make them ADA compliant.
Last edited by motownnative; 02-26-2017 at 01:03 PM..
If you are driving up the hill by lsb, go straight through the light. That brick building will be on your left, then the one way street is on your left and on your right is the road that goes down to vandalia. It's the houses on the left right after the one way road. It's like the first 4 or 5 houses.
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