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Originally Posted by maxus
Our beloved city is being overrun! Notice the telecoms and CPS ugliness increasingly smothering the streets. No one seems to notice. No burying of lines anywhere. I know it costs more, but at what cost? We will never be considered world class.
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No one really considers San Antonio to be world class. But I'm with you on the power lines. Apart from being ugly and imposing, they also end up forcing the trees to be mangled into ugly forms to avoid interfering with them.
That being said, some places are indeed burying them. For example, I'm thinking of the DoSeum, which buried all their lines on Broadway, and now there's a beautiful row of bald cypresses lining the street. Here's a before/after: