RE: Top three things you'd change about Indy
Monsieur Indyclone, I read the arguments you brought up but I believe those are more your reasons but not necessary the reasons why it is not as common in the US as it is in Europe. Come on now, enviromental risks, in the US? As if such has ever been of any magnitude importance. If you would have mentioned the Electromagnetic Field (EMF) Interference with 'deep' buried Pipelines or even the impact of the much higher humidity in the Midwest and the risk of lightning strikes or risk of earth quakes in some ares like San Fra, those are as I believe the more well-researched and acctepted reasons. And it is not like buried Transmission lines do not exists in the US. Every Downtown in all major cities are supplied with electricity this way. The costs are the driving factors here but the cost to repair and mantain land wires surpass the cost of buried ones in the long run by far and it reduce the risk of leaving people without electricity for days or weeks after every winter storm. Could it be time to ask some European contries how they did it and how much it costs them? Buried transmission lines could be efficiently combined with a far better modernized sewer system as well.
But enough of those liberal ideas here now. Thanks for the very educative answers, my man.

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