Maple Ridge shoots self in foot

[waterboy]

Most of my neighbors have large trees in the easement between the sidewalks and the street. Just how was PSO going to put the lines underground without either killing them or removing them? And pay attention: They still were going to leave the utility poles and lines across the backyard easements. They carry phone and cable lines.

You sound bitter, and you don't live here so stop calling names and characterizing those who do.  Progress does not necessarily = killing trees. Besides, it was our choice, not yours.

[Wilbur]

quote:Originally posted by Rose

I'm glad AEP is skipping Mapleridge, AKA "the neighborhood of complainers".  

Hopefully AEP will make it over to my neighborhood soon.  I'd rather have the box than the overhead lines.  If they'll let me, I'm going to paint it to look like dice or a Happy Meal box.

Mapleridge needs to stop stopping everything so midtown can progress.

Don't believe that buried power lines prevents power loss.  I live in a neighborhood with buried lines and our power goes out.

[tulsa1603]

Whatever happened to neighborhoods deciding their own fate?  If they don't want them buried, I don't see why people are getting so wound up about it.

And Wilbur is right - I grew up in a newer neighborhood with underground utilities, and the power went out there just as much (if not more) often than it does in my older midtown neighborhood.

[Steve]

I live in the Lortondale addition, midtown at 26th & S. Yale.  I have seen photos of my neighborhood under construction circa 1954, and there were no trees at all.  Today, my addition is full of mature oaks, sycamores, maples, mimosas, etc.  These trees were planted by homeowners or grew up from homeowner neglect, long after the original overhead utility/power lines were placed.  

It really peeves me that my neighbors think that trees are maintenance-free objects, requiring no periodic pruning.  PSO should remove all trees/shrubs growing on their right-of-way, and bill the property owner directly.  I had this done at my own expense on my property after the big ice storm in 1987.  If homeowners would maintain their own trees and landscaping properly, the issue of burying electric lines would not nearly be the controvery it is today.

[Rose]

Steve,
I'm with you on that.  My mom's funny reply to "stop the chop" and "stop the box" --- "don't sue when it falls on you".  

Rose