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What do you call this place? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Electric Valley? Wire Canyon? Zap Way?

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[–] [email protected] 125 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (16 children)

Utility corridor. Sometimes a "Right of Way".

Depending on where you live, "hydro lines" or "transmission lines" or similar.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (14 children)

I used the term Hydro line once on Reddit and had a lot of people asking what the hell I was talking about.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago (11 children)

Are you Canadian by any chance? It's common in Canada to call electrical utilities "hydro" whether there's water generation or not. In the states they don't do this as much. At least not in my experience.