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The ISPs have tried, but they get pushback from local residents whenever they try to install the necessary network boxes at intervals down the street. They had
by cbhl 6y ago
The ISPs have tried, but they get pushback from local residents whenever they try to install the necessary network boxes at intervals down the street. They had to go out of their way to hide cellular towers as streetlamps to get the 5G rollout to happen; I remember getting two or three notices for this (each from different telcos, so the one street corner has three streetlamps and two traffic lights on one corner).
I suspect if the droughts didn't make people get rid of their green grassy lawns homeowners would be more amenable to seeing green network boxes every few houses. It looks awful in the context of concrete sidewalks, though.
- freeone3000 6y agoSolution: Paint the boxes grey.
- NullPrefix 6y agoSolution 2: Lift the box up, attach it to the head of the street lamp.
- okigan 6y agoservicing at the top of the street lamp would me so much easier, right?
- toast0 6y agoNaw man, woodgrain stickers.
- gwittel 6y agoOther options: 1) Sprout the streetlamp from the box, add a car charging port. 2) Hire an artist to paint the box with artwork (property owner gets to pick from option set). Consider it to be city owned art installations.
- asdff 6y agoOr even some cheap creeping hedges like bouganvillea
- Lammy 6y agoPROTIP: The boxes are an excuse. Building infrastructure would make more people want to move there, and claiming the boxes are ugly is something you can’t disagree with.
- cameldrv 6y agoThe parts of SV that haven't buried their power lines (not too pretty to begin with) have gotten significantly uglier since all of the new cable/fiber/DSL infrastructure has gone in. There are in many cases multiple of these things on loads of poles: https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r31593060-Equip-What-is-this https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r31593060-Equip-What-is-thi...
- xxpor 6y agogod forbid infra has some infra on it
- mschuster91 6y agoHere in Germany we bury everything. I don't even want to imagine how long it takes to rebuild all of that when some drunkard crashes his car into one of these poles or a lightning strike hits.
- hangonhn 6y agoI grew up in the Florida Keys where the water table is very close to the surface so it's impossible to bury anything. When I was a young teenager, we would lose electricity all the time from tree branches brushing up against the power lines. They finally solved the problem by putting in power lines on concrete poles that are a few stories up! No more squirrels and tree branches disputing power!
- slopirate 6y agoA lot less time than when an earthquake snaps an underground cable.
- ian-g 6y agoI could be wrong, but I'd worry about earthquakes severing the lines. This map[0] shows the major faults, but each one of those is a lot of small minor faults that all could snap things and shift. One small fault right by where I grew up is about three blocks long. Last I checked had one earthquake to its name: a magnitude 5.0 aftershock of Loma Prieta [0] https://usgs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=5a6038b3a1684561a9b0aadf88412fcf https://usgs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id...
- grumple 6y agoSV residents really do complain about everything, huh? Try living in an east coast city, our aesthetic is a mess.