Electric Valley? Wire Canyon? Zap Way?
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Utility corridor. Sometimes a “Right of Way”.
Depending on where you live, “hydro lines” or “transmission lines” or similar.
I used the term Hydro line once on Reddit and had a lot of people asking what the hell I was talking about.
Are you Canadian by any chance? It’s common in Canada to call electrical utilities “hydro” whether there’s water generation or not. In the states they don’t do this as much. At least not in my experience.
Similarly, in the US we have “telephone poles” to carry residential power lines, even if there are no telecom wires on them.
I call them that sometimes, but mostly just “power lines.”
But what do you call the actual wooden pole that holds the power lines? Like if someone hit the pole how would you describe it?
Sometimes telephone pole, sometimes utility pole.
Utility poles. Could carry electricity and/or telephone and/or cable tv. In some places it may be home to street lights, sirens, emergency signals, fiber optic cables & junctions/splitters, or other infrastructure.
Interesting. I haven’t heard them called that, even though I’m in a state where most electricity is from hydro, And my state borders Canada.
Well hello there Washington citizen! WA is the only state in the US to get most of its electricity from hydro.
You’ve got a great river system up there and WA manages to put it all to great use. If the whole country had that kind of river network, perhaps we’d all be running on renewables…
Ah - I didn’t know we were the only ones who do. But yes, it’s nice to have that. I understand we also have the largest ferry system in at least the US, although I think that’s not directly related to the rivers.
Right. Cause we’re not looney.
I sure am
To me “hydro line” sounds like a weird way to say “water pipe”.
Mostly because hydro means water. Of course that would be confusing.
I would call it a hydro corridor.
Electric Avenue
And then we take it higher
motorcycle revs
American Torii Gateways.
Electric easement
Right-of-way, right-o’way, utility easement
Electricitrees
Is this a contest for best comment? 🏆
That’s a powerline cut.
Liminal.
Electric Avenue. Let’s rock down to it.
Strips cut through forested areas like this are generally called fire breaks. I don’t know if there’s a more specific term for those beneath power lines.
Down by the power lines
Power lines.
An electrical easement.
Utility cut
In Swedish it would be called “kraftledningsgata”, directly translated to English that means “powerline street”, but I already saw a better name for it in the comments “utility corridoor”
🇸🇯 Strømgate - electrics street.
Or “Electric Avenue” as I’ve taken to calling them.
And then we’ll take it higher.
the Cut. (Low and ominous)
Same, there was one by my home growing up and we all called it that.
