Posted September 27, 200618 yr I guess I will stop complaining about overhead wires all over the place in Cincinnati..... From this topic on SSP http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=115592
September 27, 200618 yr overhead wires are awesome and provide an intimate sense of urban enclosure... long live overhead wires... i'll take the character of overhead wires in an urban setting over the sterility of buried utility found in the suburbs and sunbelt cities
September 27, 200618 yr there's an organic quality to those wires that i find really fascinating. safety, howeve, may be another issue.
September 27, 200618 yr There was a discussion in the W65th & Detroit (Cleveland)thread about overhead wires and I seemed to be the only one that understood what these do visuallyfor a streetscape. Glad I'm not the only out here with that opinion.
September 27, 200618 yr I agree that overhead wires do add to the urban context in places like OTR, (Cbus) German Village, Northside, etc, but they look terrible in a CBD, if not in a situation like Dayton, where their is a necessary element for transportation.
September 27, 200618 yr i was about to say, i like how the bus wires look in dayton. when you are driving along and they turn a corner or stop you notice right away and it feels weird. come to think of it wacky cartoonist robert crumb would not have had much of an early career if he hadn't obsessed about streetscape wires, mostly from clev initially:
October 2, 200618 yr This are typical streets in Milan...overhead wires everywhere. I love it. http://world.nycsubway.org/perl/show?30120 http://world.nycsubway.org/perl/show?30331 http://world.nycsubway.org/perl/show?9263
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