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Los Altos Hills members praise completed undergrounding demonstration but flag high costs and carrier delays
Summary
Committee members celebrated a long-running undergrounding demonstration project but said it proved costly and slow; they urged clearer utility coordination after Comcast cables delayed pole removal.
Los Altos Hills committee members celebrated the completion of a six-and-a-half-year undergrounding demonstration but warned residents the work was both costly and slow.
A council member recounted attending a ribbon-cutting and said the demonstration was chosen to test an approach before broader undergrounding. "Let's do a demonstration project," the council member said, adding the first phase "has been frightfully expensive, painfully slow, and extremely difficult to do." The…
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