Where are your city’s power lines?

[SignalHillHiker]

Oh, just regular outages happen all the time. We were without power for a few hours just the other day. It went after supper and came back shortly after 11 p.m. That is completely normal, for us, at least.

The parts of the city hooked up to the same line as the Health Sciences Centre (which, as you can imagine in such an old city, are nonsensical and not at all in a single, geographic area) never lose it for long. There's one house in Rabbittown that's on it. And my parents on Mount Carson are as well.

We all get used to refreshing the Outages page on our phones:

[Denscity]

We've got a bunch of hydroelectric dams here so we've got powerlines running to Kelowna and into the American grid onto Seattle as well as throughout Southeastern BC. The local ones downtown are buried. And uptown ones are mostly buried as well.

[vid]

Port Arthur and Fort William had different approaches to above-ground power lines. Fort William put them in the back alleys, out of sight, while Port Arthur put them along the streets, though almost all major streets have had their power lines moved underground over the past 30 years. Typically the only wires you see along a street in Fort William is the single wire connecting each street light, or in the vicinity of a substation which has the poles along the street to connect to it though they will typically move into the nearest alleyway.

In suburban areas they're usually underground, but in some places, if there is room for them, they're above ground and along the street.

[Denscity]

Parts of downtown Vancouver have their powerlines in the back alleys. They kinda have an iconic (for lack of a better word) look to them which every local will recognize.

[vid]

That gives me the perfect excuse to post this photo again:

[ozonemania]

Originally Posted by vid

That gives me the perfect excuse to post this photo again:

Love the photo, thanks for reminding me about your Vancouver photo thread, I will visit it again!

What is that man doing by the dumpster? Creepy.

The iconic Vancouver alley power lines are the "H" shaped ones.