overhead wires
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Undergrounding electric wires can cost more than $6 million per mile, according to the state Public Utilities Commission, far more than building overhead wires.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026
These include more than 120 trees on tracks, damaged overhead wires, power supply failures and other objects and debris blown onto the line.
From BBC • Jan. 27, 2025
For instance, multiple lawsuits allege Edison’s equipment ignited the deadly Eaton fire after the utility failed to de-energize overhead wires during a Jan. 7 wind event.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2025
Beyond that, the overhead wires will be replaced in west London.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2024
New York and all the other great cities in 1882, and for some years thereafter, were burdened and darkened by hideous masses of overhead wires carried on ugly wooden poles along all the main thoroughfares.
From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Dyer, Frank Lewis
