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From: tw8023@pyuxii.UUCP (T Wheeler)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Fiber Optics along the New York State Thruway
Message-ID: <307@pyuxii.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 21-Jan-86 07:50:42 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 21 07:50:42 1986
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One point about fiber optics along the intrestate routess.

The fiber cable is to be a buried cable.  No poles.  Many of
New Yorks highways have buried cables running next to them.
Burying the cable along a highway right-of-way is the most
economical method of getting from one place to another.
Sounds like a good idea to me.  Other states use this
method and it works.  There are almost never any problems
with maintenance crews (unless some twank digs up the cable).
The major problem in New York concerning the opposition
to using the highways is that those opposed do not
understand the technology and are afraid of the unknown.
T. C. Wheeler