BfN_Turin t1_j5w5ugw wrote on January 25, 2023 at 11:54 PM

Reply to comment by mgzukowski in Lawmakers pushing for MBTA to electrify Commuter Rail by 2035 by ToadScoper

And you think nothing was buried in Germany when they did it there?

Edit: just to clarify. The government has a pretty damn good idea what’s buried where here. Hence calling them before you dig. They can tell what’s there. Germany didn’t even know. Plans were gone after WW2, if they even existed from before. And there were bombs from the war everywhere as well. They still got it done.

mgzukowski t1_j5wuqqw wrote on January 26, 2023 at 2:46 AM

That's why they got it done, everything had been totally destroyed. So everything had to be rebuilt. Boston never got that, so shit is all over the place down there.

If it was easy it would be done already, since it would be safer.

Also at the same.point they don't know what down there. Not perfectly that's why even with dog safe things get hit

BfN_Turin t1_j5wz5eh wrote on January 26, 2023 at 3:18 AM

Nope. Power lines were put underground in the 70s. Germany had been rebuild by then and was deep into the Wirtschaftswunder.

mgzukowski t1_j5wzo0f wrote on January 26, 2023 at 3:22 AM

The point was they had to rebuild everything so everything was organized. Not that it was done all at once.

BfN_Turin t1_j5x169x wrote on January 26, 2023 at 3:33 AM

But it wasn’t. No one knew what was in the ground. Hell, there were bombs all over the place still, they even find them regularly during construction work right now. They needed to build as much housing as possible in as little time as possible. The building material was often the rubble from destroyed buildings. Electricity was rebuilt quickly as well. Germany had a fully function electricity network again within a few years after the war. With utility poles like the US, cause it had to be fast. Then, in the 70s, the conscious decision was made to put them underground. Germany was fully rebuild by then already. Saying that decision 30 years after the war is connected to the build up is simply wrong. Another great way to show this rebuild argument doesn’t make sense is simply using another country as example: Switzerland. They also mainly have underground powerlines and we’re not destroyed during the war at all. Now, I have to say that I do not know anything about the history about this in Switzerland, but their underground lines are for sure not based on rebuilding the country from rubbles. Denmark is the same as well.