I hear you. I just can’t imagine it not being cost effective to bury the lines. Yeah it would be expensive upfront, and it wouldn’t all be able to be done, let alone at one time. And it would be even more expensive to dig down there and figure out where the issue is coming from than it would be to physically see the issue from above ground.

But how much would we be able to save on emergencies services (whether it be the on-call GMP folks or the fire dept because of a live wire during a storm) — plus having to replace old equipment anyway? If we can’t reuse the above ground equipment and have to get new stuff anyway, wouldn’t that put us in better standing in the long run too?

How many years would it take to level out and we start profiting from the underground systems?

Everyone in this comment section just wants to point fingers about how expensive everything would be but where are the actual numbers? Has anyone even thought that far ahead?