{"id":1422,"date":"2006-08-16T10:41:23","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T18:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/08\/he_comes_not_to_praise_cable_but_to_bury_cable.html"},"modified":"2006-08-16T10:41:23","modified_gmt":"2006-08-16T18:41:23","slug":"he_comes_not_to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/he_comes_not_to.html","title":{"rendered":"He Comes Not To Praise Cable But To Bury Cable"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey Molinaro — where are we supposed to throw our sneakers once this happens<\/a>? But you probably weren’t even thinking of that:<\/p>\n

On the heels of this summer’s power outages, Borough President James Molinaro wants to revisit an old debate on the placement of Staten Island’s power cables: Above or below.<\/p>\n

In a letter to the Staten Island Growth Management Task Force, City Planning Director Amanda Burden and Buildings Commissioner Patricia Lancaster, Molinaro has requested a regulation requiring all new houses in the borough to have underground utility cables.<\/p>\n

Doing so, he said, would protect the cables from the elements and also help preserve the charm of neighborhoods by eliminating the “unsightly, clothesline-like mess” of overhead cables.<\/p>\n

“I don’t expect this can be done for every new home, but 95 percent of the time you can do it,” Molinaro added. “It’s safe, it’s reliable and it looks better.”<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

The gradual shift to an underground system likely would require a massive coordination effort with all of those city agencies, the state Public Service Commission, Consolidated Edison, Verizon and legislation by the City Council. While a state law already mandates the utility companies to install underground cables for multiple-occupancy dwellings and subdivisions of five homes, it does not apply to single-family homes.<\/p>\n

Industry experts say the cost — and the Island’s topography — could make such a move prohibitive.<\/p>\n

Underground cables can cost up to $1 million per mile, or about 10 times more than their overhead counterparts, according to estimates from Consolidated Edison.<\/p>\n

The massive 10-day blackout in Queens, which interrupted service to as many as 100,000 people — was also a glaring reminder of how difficult it can be to diagnose and repair problems with underground cables.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey Molinaro — where are we supposed to throw our sneakers once this happens? But you probably weren’t even thinking of that: On the heels of this summer’s power outages, Borough President James Molinaro wants to revisit an old debate on the placement of Staten Island’s power cables: Above or below. In a letter to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staten_island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}