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Comment Re:Not so fast (Score 2) 33

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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