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How can this be possible? On the Mainland they started putting the wires underground about 40 years ago. We live on an island where tourist come to see the beauty. I live here to see the beauty and I am sure you do too. It is getting harder and harder to see the beauty through the Utility Wires. In some areas (the cross section of Rt. 30 and 31 for example) It is almost unbelievable. I feel like I am having a bad dream when I drive across the island and try to look up at Haleakala and all I see is poles and wires. There is no excuse good enough to condone the fact that they just keep putting up larger and uglier poles everywhere. Why are they not put underground? I mean the wires of course.Yes, I know it is costly but so is what they are doing to the island of Maui! In the long run the low cost of maintenance and repair would make up for the cost of putting them underground. I was here in 1989 when 12 telephone poles fell across the street in Kapalua. That would have been a good time to start the underground wires. It was a large Kona storm that took them out and those can happen anytime. If all wires were underground it would be a lot safer during storms, hurricanes, and even tsunamis. Why are the new developments (I hate those words) not required to have underground wires? Does it have to keep getting worse? |
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