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Posted on 19/03/05

London's lesson for Toronto: Just do it

Thank goodness Toronto is still sufficiently backward that it continues to distribute so much electricity on Edison-era wooden poles. If the city hadn't abandoned its expensive, ambitious plans to bury electrical wires more than a decade ago, there wouldn't have been nearly enough poles left to sell in 2005.

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