Another movement I'd like to see in the US is to take telephone poles down and put all that wiring under the ground. Would generate jobs and make the country much prettier.
It would be crazy expensive to do it all at once in the US. I'm from the north east and almost everywhere is above ground on poles. Only the newer developments are moving to underground.
it provides little gain, and a year or two is very ambitious. more like 10 or 20. plus we don't have the resources to replace the stuff that needs replaced. let alone to move it all underground.
Telephone wires are already largely underground. What you see are power transmission lines. That's why the transformers are up there, too.
I can only imagine it would be rather hazardous to have power transmission lines buried underground, especially in a region prone to any kind of flooding or even heavy, ground-saturating rains.
