A wooden utility pole has apparently given way on 15th ave E at Harrison closing the street and leaving emergency crews befuddled on what to do about the leaning pole and strained wires.
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I walked past this pole about 5 seconds before it happened. It popped so I turned around and saw it fall onto the trolley wires overhead. Wires were swinging and sparking up a storm. Nothing hit it- it just snapped at the base.
Maintenance guys said the wood was just rotten.
I always forget how ugly the building that bagel deli is in really is ..
walk around the CD and you’ll see tons of spindly old light posts just waiting to snap
Me too. We walked out of Smith started walking toward Safeway and heard it happen. Turned around and saw two bikes on the ground and thought there was a car accident, but I think the cyclists just freaked out and jumped off their bikes. There was a red scooter right next to the pole as well, that looked like it survived the pole fall. Was really really surreal.
If I recall, there’s always a large puddle around that pole whenever it rains…
not for other utilities as far as I can tell. There is a rectifier substation (converts the line AC into DC for the buses) just south of the 15th Ave Starbucks. This pole held the wires bringing electricity from the substation to the wires over the street. Even if all the utilities on 15th were underground (a la Broadway) we’d still need these poles to support the trolleybus infrastructure (a la Broadway). Small price to pay for our clean quiet buses IMHO.
We should all learn what Nikola Tesla was trying to do over a century ago. Human reality is a lie.
Dork. That’s your reality 666.
Check it out. My name is divisible by 3 as well.
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