And there's so much propaganda and misinformation about this and all propagated by the lobbies of the power industry and public service of New Hampshire, for years and years. Whenever it would be brought forth Just for consideration it would be shot down. This is the difference between a well-run government with broader powers and a very conservative GOP government that lets everything be determined by the corporate interest and the market. It would have cost money to have done it and it would have been an infrastructure investment such as the interstates, Water and Sewer and any of those larger projects that take brighter Minds and commitment to do the right thing. But overhead power lines function sort of and Aesthetics never played much of a role in the US. Of course the larger argument would be to have uninterrupted service and possibly not the need of certain types of linements. Maybe there wasn't Union resistance as well I don't know. But it was never thought thoroughly through with any sort of push for the greater common weal.

We all become inured of the ugliness all around. But when you go to a nice place especially South of the Border in Massachusetts where there has been more commitment in villages and in urban spaces to reduce or put completely below the tangle, you might not at first notice what makes the place attractive. But then you stop and look and you realize they no lines no telephone poles no ugliness. But it's all about money and it's all about cost at this point and everything is thrust back to the consumer on the local level. Goffstown six or seven years ago we did their Main Street which is probably traveled 114 cuz there was no bypass and took such Flack over the Pedestrian bump out and the slowing of the traffic through the village. In America it's all about moving the audible deal first everybody else is fucked, who lives on the side. It's only an engineering consideration rarely rarely no never aesthetic and again. But even here with a spent all that energy and money private and Federal they could not get enough money to take the electric poles down. Still in ice or on the Main Street even though the rest of the pedestrian build-outs and Landscaping is more pleasant but still marred by Third World Electric connections

I travel a lot, spend a fair amount of time in Europe even in Eastern Europe where I still have some distant family and I'm amazed even in for poorer Poland most of the lines are buried. Go figure. Just a matter what you want to spend your money on and what is the most important thing. How you spend your dollars speaks volumes to the values especially the cultural values you share. There is no free lunch