Tucson Speaks Out: Feb. 3

Thank you, Daniel Dempsey, for your continued reminders of how much TEP continues to get away with as far as Tucson is concerned. I have watched as their oversized, ugly rusted metal poles continue to go up without notice until they obscure and tower over any view of street or mountains in midtown, some on every home lot of homes along many east/west thoroughfares (see East Hendrick Drive between Campbell and Tucson Boulevard for example). They cite the cost of undergrounding as a deterrent for doing the right thing in placing those obscene poles and numerous wires out of sight, at a cost to ratepayers. As our temperatures rise they will soon be vulnerable to the same things that have happened in California with sparking and failures. Country Club Road has been worked on recently burying something in trenches. TEP lines could do the same…

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