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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

DFW

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11. I'm sure you're right

Reply to SWBTATTReg (Reply #10)

Thu Oct 17, 2024, 02:10 PM

Oct 17

Large scale manufacturers of anything don't want to be informed about (much less held responsible for) dangerous and possibly fatal consequences from the use of whatever it is they make.

(oh, the doors tend to fly off our planes in mid-flight? here's some extra masking tape, just in case!)

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Colorado: Night thefts of copper wire worth $110,000 disrupted RTD trains 21 times since April [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Oct 17 OP

Wow. I wonder if this is a common problem everywhere? SWBTATTReg Oct 17 #1

Yep. duncang Oct 17 #2

Well, rehabs (housing) is one common area we saw where the wiring was stolen out of some homes SWBTATTReg Oct 17 #3

It sure is a problem here in Germany DFW Oct 17 #4

Wow. I guess I don't feel bad if one of these crooks accidently electrocutes themselves, am I a bad person? SWBTATTReg Oct 17 #5

A high speed train is different from a cell phone, but maybe some day DFW Oct 17 #7

Better to be safe than sorry. The power line companies have long argued that it's safe under power lines SWBTATTReg Oct 17 #8

I don't think there is any 100% safe insulation/isolation DFW Oct 17 #9

I don't think they have had enough studies on these emissions causing such things, being that the power SWBTATTReg Oct 17 #10

I'm sure you're right DFW Oct 17 #11

Copper wire thefts on the rise, causing delays for Metro's rail lines - Los Angeles Times mahatmakanejeeves Oct 17 #6

We see this happening in Uruguay sanatanadharma Oct 17 #12