What Eyesores Near Downtown Hurt Pittsburgh's Looks The Worst? (Washington: 2014, new home)

[Copanut]

Originally Posted by ditchdigger

Back to the original question--You know what I think is an eyesore? Overhead utility lines. Wires strung on poles. Electric, phone, and CATV. And the damn things are nearly everywhere...

Except for soulless Cranberry.

Tend to agree, areas with underground wiring or ones with the power lines in the rear look much better.

[ditchdigger]

And you know what else? Duquesne Light's contractors come around every few years and butcher all the trees in the right of way. That leaves them looking lousy too.

Originally Posted by Pitts64
That big, yellow monstrosity in the middle of Frank Curto Park on Bigelow Blvd...

You mean French Fries? BLASPHEMY! ....

Some years ago, I was driving out the boulevard, and saw that somebody had left a large, hand-lettered sign there that read "pilot error".

[Caladium]

Originally Posted by Pitts64

That big, yellow monstrosity in the middle of Frank Curto Park on Bigelow Blvd...

Please somebody post a photo of this!

[jay5835]

Originally Posted by ditchdigger

You know what I think is an eyesore? Overhead utility lines. Wires strung on poles. Electric, phone, and CATV. And the damn things are nearly everywhere...

Rep points for you if I can. I thought I would eventually get used to looking at those, but it never came to pass. Ugly, ugly, ugly.

[gg]

Originally Posted by ditchdigger

And you know what else? Duquesne Light's contractors come around every few years and butcher all the trees in the right of way. That leaves them looking lousy too.

I think this is probably the worst. Utility lines are so backwards and the destroy entire towns. Blawnox is a town that is destroyed by utility lines. Drive through there and it is all you see. Oakmont removed them from downtown and it improved the look to the point it is one of the nicest little downtowns around. I have been to many countries that have them all underground and when you come back to the states you really see how sad they are. Power outages dump poison soaked polls everywhere. Wires hanging everywhere and trees being butchered by morons with chainsaws.

[UKyank]

Originally Posted by h_curtis

I think this is probably the worst. Utility lines are so backwards and the destroy entire towns. Blawnox is a town that is destroyed by utility lines. Drive through there and it is all you see. Oakmont removed them from downtown and it improved the look to the point it is one of the nicest little downtowns around. I have been to many countries that have them all underground and when you come back to the states you really see how sad they are. Power outages dump poison soaked polls everywhere. Wires hanging everywhere and trees being butchered by morons with chainsaws.

But then where would you throw your old sneakers?

[SteelCityRising]

Originally Posted by h_curtis

Power outages dump poison soaked polls everywhere. Wires hanging everywhere and trees being butchered by morons with chainsaws.

So nice to see that you consider the person who is toiling out in the elements at all hours of the day to restore your electricity a "moron". Not everyone who works a relatively menial job is a "moron" or "beneath" you. I have an above-average IQ and a Bachelor's Degree and take great offense to any assertion that someone must be a "moron" because they're not as fully employed as thou.

[Citypoot]

Steel City,

I don't think their point really hinged on the word "moron".

I think their point hinged on the idiocy in 2011 of a city that still has 95% of
its power lines above ground, thus destroying the potential aesthetics of so many neighborhoods.

One of the dangers of that famous Pittsburgh Provincialism, is cherry-picking a careless stray word like "moron" to fit a script of "Pittsburgh hard working blue collar legacy under attack", when really all that was under attack is improving our city's looks.

And I suspect you know this too. I suspect you're well aware that the core of the poster's point wasn't that he/she fancied themselves "better than" an electrician cutting down tree limbs. The core of their point is how ridiculous it is in 2011 that we're still destroying trees and entire city blocks, when we CAN find the money and burden of closing down roads to widen travel lanes, put in water mains, etc...yet you could revolutionize the feel of Pittsburgh by biurying it's lines, and yet that won't happen "round these here parts" until about 2050...

...mainly because individuals such as yourself so willfully debase the entire purpose of someone's point while trying to carry the banner for your town.

We've all met parents whose kids can misbehave and act a fool ever 30 seconds, but they never reprimand them, because they think their child can do no wrong.

Don't become that type of parent to Pittsburgh, or there's no point to discussing the pros and cons of the city at all.

Drawing attention to the cons of a city is what improves it.

[bbrian12]

the UPMC logo on the u.s. steel bldg

[gg]

Originally Posted by SteelCityRising

So nice to see that you consider the person who is toiling out in the elements at all hours of the day to restore your electricity a "moron". Not everyone who works a relatively menial job is a "moron" or "beneath" you. I have an above-average IQ and a Bachelor's Degree and take great offense to any assertion that someone must be a "moron" because they're not as fully employed as thou.

Guess you have not seen the disgraceful job they butchers do to the trees in our area yet. You will and then realize what my post was about. You totally misread it, but those of us that have lived here for longer know what I meant. I have seen first hand some of the dumbest things these idiots with chainsaws do. We had countless people out of power a couple winters ago and the guys with the chainsaws were milking time like no other. They sad outside the front of my home for hours doing nothing and then lopped off a top of one of my 80+ year old trees for no reason at all. The tree wasn't touching anything. You have no idea and don't get me started. I should have called the police to be quite honest and next time I will straight away!