# Why no widespread underground power utilities?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 1, 2022, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-widespread-underground-power-utilities/972557 "2022-10-01T20:19:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![jjakucyk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3d9bf3/32.png) [@jjakucyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjakucyk)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2022, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-no-widespread-underground-power-utilities/972557/23 "2022-10-02T17:45:59Z")

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> [@jjakucyk](#):
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> hat’s the only example I could find (I know there’s others that are even more svelte than this but I haven’t saved them and couldn’t find them)

Heh, I found a [post](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-powerlines-in-europe-really/601821/83) I made here in 2016 talking about this very subject, and the examples I posted there have been undergrounded or significantly reduced in the last decade, so you need the 2009-2015 street views.

https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=%213m2%212sen%214v0%216m8%211m7%211sg8UV25zBFT-VkpOGjLCiXg%212m2%211d55.7084319%212d12.3822498%213f297.62%214f9.04%215f0.75

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