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Comment Re:Not so fast (Score 1) 59

We don't have _anything_ else on those poles. Legally you can't even put a picture of a lost cat on one without permission from Openreach

I did not know that, Thanks, I have sometimes seen small grey boxes on the pole but I guess they are also part of the phone system then. I guess they really don't have much use then once the phone lines are gone, It would be quite nice to get rid of all the overhead lines going to the houses, I certainly don't use mine anymore, In fact I have a lot of phone line and tv coax running around the building that could all go too.

The street lamp network is already in place

I was thinking more decorative, But I guess it's just extra cash that could be used to fix the roads and such.

Comment Re:Not so fast (Score 3, Informative) 59

In the UK the electricity, water and gas are all usually underground, There will be one big transformer somewhere that serves many houses, Power crosses the country on pylons above ground. The phonelines are underground too until the point at which they distribute to the houses then there is a pole with lines coming off to maybe 6 or 8 houses, That is what I have seen in my experience and how my current house/street is set up. We don't have much else on those poles, we don't have any power transformers like I have seen in the US. So the pole is redundant once the phone lines are off, My own experience suggests most of those poles are timber so could just be cut at ground level I guess, and the wire being external wouldn't be too hard to recover.. Or maybe they could add a light to the pole or something.

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