Because then all the phone calls would have sounded muffled.
Couldn’t you just yell a little louder into the phone to make up for it?
You’re thinking of “too quite” which can be solved with louder speech. Muffled remains unclear regardless of volume.
Incorrect. “Too quite” can only be cancelled out by some “not very”.
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More expensive to build. That doesn’t get offset by accidents and whatever. Also harder to repair in case something really is broken with it.
Here they are for residential supply. It’s been this way for almost 50 years.
For high voltage AC, underground calling is actually a nightmare from a maintenance perspective.
Very very expensive. For fiber, though, it’s starting to make sense economically.
In addition to cost (as everyone else said), work and worker qualifications. Working on underground lines requires special confined spaces training and certification, because it is more dangerous, could deal with not just electricity, but potentially hight temperatures, water, sewage, toxic gas, lack of oxygen, etc. There are even fewer people willing to do that compared to riding a bucket to the overhead lines.
Source: Worked for electrical utility
High population of native predators:
they have been here in sweden, only high-voltage lines remain aboveground (with much much more robust infrastructure) and the odd teensy weensy rural line that probably isn’t even active any more and remains simply because no one cares enough to dismantle it.
Some unprepared countries tried this, in an effort to modernize. Without interdeparrment communication, good documentation, coordination, signage and, well, maps that included depth data that are maintained and updated in real time, yould have frequent outages each time one works department or private contractor did some digging in an inocuous patch.
Source: am malaysian.
Don’t know why they don’t this in your place. Here, power, phone, fiber, everything is underground for years now.
They are in lots of places. Most British villages/towns/cities all utilities are now underground. Its quite rare to see low voltage powerless now
Except high voltage lines outside the city everything is mostly underground here in Germany.
Telephone… lines? They’re wireless, duh. /s
As a kid there was a big exciting (to me through my parents’ eyes) movement to put our neighborhood power lines underground, but they fk’ed it up somehow and power started going out so often we got a generator.
I want to say it was some issue with the water table? Poorly protected? Too low? Whenever a big rain would come they’d flood and cut off? I might be making that part up, kid memories.
I’m sure that has a lot to do with the incopetents that managed it and little to fo with underground cables in general.
Where I am, way cheaper for upkeep to have on poles. Some jackass is trying to force my entire neighborhood to underground our power lines for no reason other than aesthetics and they say it’ll cost the average homeowner here $50k each. If it goes through I’m thinking of Molotov cocktailing the fucker’s house.
do it anyway just to send the message.
Why weren’t telephone lines and electrical lines not buried under ground?
I guess Dickle has no time for proofreading because need to post 10 times a day
Where I am from, they’ve been doing that for a few decades now. We get snow and windy autumns, so trees fall on the lines, snapping them, leaving tens of thousands without electricity. Also the snow packs on the branches of the trees, making them either snap or just sort of lean on the power lines, snapping them, leaving tens of thousands without electricity in -25C degree weather.
