The motto with power lines seems to be, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Seriously, there seems to be some kind of union mind set at work in the power industry. I’m told that technology exists to actually jump a downed section of wire, if you have a box pre-installed. A neighbor of mine worked for the company that made them. They couldn’t get the electric company to buy them.
The man lived on a street that had old electric lines that went out in every storm and put one of the units across the street from his house. We never had a problem with the power going out again. Then the property sold and they made him remove the power jump station. It kind of looked like one of those Comcast green units that you see along the road, except that we don’t have cable tv or high speed internet in the area.