A Providence, R.I., man is expressing concern about a telephone pole on River Avenue that's held together with duct tape. (WJAR)
A telephone pole in Providence that was being held together with duct tape was replaced Friday, following an NBC 10 report.
Neal Rogers lives near the pole, which is located at Sandringham and River avenues. He contacted NBC 10 earlier in the week, saying he was concerned about safety.
The pole was hit by a truck more than two weeks ago and split down the middle.
A crew checked the pole and used black tape to pull the two sides of the pole together.
NBC 10 contacted National Grid, which said a supervisor assessed the situation and deemed the pole to be safe for the short term.
But by Friday, Rogers got results, as a crew from National Grid replaced the pole.
“My concern was it was either going to fall on a house or fall into the street and take all of the wires out and maybe fall some someone’s car,” Rogers said. “To me, it was dangerous. Thanks to Channel 10 and (reporter) Danielle Kennedy, it got fixed.”
National Grid initially told NBC 10 the pole would be fixed next week, but now the work has been finished earlier than expected.
Fhajad on March 24th, 2018 at 21:18 UTC »
This article is weird.
"We looked at it, taped it for temporary use, then we'll evaluate to replace it later." Then after a bit, they replaced it.
Sometimes you don't knock it down immediately and replace, or it's too windy. You can sometimes work on it live depending on conditions, but maybe it's too many people to take offline if conditions aren't good? Also, some companies aren't allowed to work on live lines.
My local power company tests hundreds of poles a year and replaces them preemptively. If a car hits it, they'll do the same thing to spend the hourly work during regular hours, instead of after hours emergency time. Also less people are at home during regular hours, so if you have to take power off, cool deal.
doe_hann_jo on March 24th, 2018 at 20:38 UTC »
Hilarious. I love my state. This just happened not too long ago.
“The design was almost identical, except the word ‘preservation’ was replaced with ‘penetration.’”
SerBennis on March 24th, 2018 at 18:29 UTC »
I've seen car bonnets held on with duct tape, it'll be "fine"