[trisham]

Our town has funding to refurbish our teeny downtown and despite intending to do everything else, road configuration change, new sidewalks and some building facad improvement, they are still saying burying the wires is too expensive. My suspicious mind tells me the utility company won’t agree to bargain. But I guess it is expensive.

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It's nice that your town is renovating, but I think burying the wires is a bit costly. We have very few sidewalks here. Mostly just a portion of one of the main streets. We don't even have streetlights on our street, and no sidewalks, either.

We have a nightlight in our bedroom or it would be too dark to find our way around at night. I like it, but we each have a flashlight next to the bed. If we lose power, it could result in a nasty fall or bruise.

[Lady Jag]

There are some “towns” in western Mass. that you’ll miss if you blink. Some are so understated you don’t recognize them. Our town is much like that in eastern MA. Downtown is lighted. Outlying streetlighting was removed years ago and a bunch of us have our area own generators due to frequent outages.

If they buried our lines it would stop squirrels from chewing wires but with our luck, moles would take over. LOL!