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Any of you who regularly travel Falls of Neuse know the widening effort is in full swing. The new bridge is looking nice, the roads are beginning to get paved (and widened in existing sections), cleared, etc.
But my question is - what's up with the power lines? It appears that they're erecting new poles. My hope is that those are temporary and that the long term plan is to bury those wires underground for the final product. Please, someone tell me we aren't stuck with nasty above-ground electrical poles and wires when this road is complete!?
Any of you who regularly travel Falls of Neuse know the widening effort is in full swing. The new bridge is looking nice, the roads are beginning to get paved (and widened in existing sections), cleared, etc.
But my question is - what's up with the power lines? It appears that they're erecting new poles. My hope is that those are temporary and that the long term plan is to bury those wires underground for the final product. Please, someone tell me we aren't stuck with nasty above-ground electrical poles and wires when this road is complete!?
I have no clue... I've not been over there lately.
But... if I had to guess it based on PE's latest trends? They're not gonna bury them.
However, the other side of the story is that buried power lines are much harder to troubleshoot and repair when they fail. For example, say a bunch of trees fall in a given neighborhood, and one of the root systems takes out a buried line. It is not immediately obvious where the fault is (although it can certainly be found), unlike with an above-ground system.
Again, I agree that above-ground power lines are a real eyesore, and probably a lot less reliable, and that the utilities should be required to bury the things.
Again, I agree that above-ground power lines are a real eyesore, and probably a lot less reliable, and that the utilities should be required to bury the things.
Everyone wants to have buried power lines, but no one wants the increase in their monthly bills that may be required to pay for it. A lot of utilities still operate as "rate of return", so the more the utility spends to operate/maintain the grid, the more the end user will pay.
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