^Great movie.
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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper
No one has denied that there are many cities with neighbourhoods far from the core have their wires buried. They existing in Toronto too. Neither has anyone denied that Toronto has a ton of overheads wires lining its main streets. It has also been said the few remaining wires for street lighting and traffic signals in the financial core is rather unique to Toronto. It's your simple conclusion that Toronto is somehow failing at burying these wires because it comparably has a lot of overhead wires on its main streets to other cities without considering the circumstance and everything said is why I say you don't get it.
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Ah yes, circumstances that only Toronto (and to varying extents the rest of Canada) faces while nobody else does. I simply don't accept that. We face no obstacles that other cities don't also face. It's a simple matter of how much various cities prioritize aesthetics. The simplicity of my conclusions is your own projection, nothing more. And yes, compared to other cities Toronto and a few other cities in Canada are doing a very poor job of burying wires. Even the cities mentioned earlier like Seattle and Melbourne don't have as much overhead clutter as you routinely find in high profile locations in Toronto.
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Originally Posted by casper
This is more of an old-city vrs new-city problem. At least that is the case in the West.
Hydro poles are found in the older built up areas. In new sub-burbs they are generally non-existent.
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Not really. On a world scale, age has nothing to do with it. There are many, many cities all over Europe that are older than anything in Canada and have scarcely any overhead wires at all. Not only in high profile and tourist friendly locations like has been suggested in this thread, but the entire city. There are random cities I've never heard of in Spain, Germany and Norway where overhead wires are nowhere to be found. City centres, new neighbourhoods, old neighbourhoods, even industrial areas...as far as I can tell overhead wires simply don't exist in these places. If you suggested to the people there that they should put wires above ground to provide "grit" and "character" you'd be laughed out of town.
I'm not suggesting that we go that far, I'm simply showing what's possible. Surely we can find some middle ground between that gold standard and our mess of wires and poles.
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But I was looking forward to more Calgary awfulness 
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