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[–] [email protected] 125 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Utility corridor. Sometimes a "Right of Way".

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (3 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] 46 points 11 months ago (4 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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Similarly, in the US we have “telephone poles” to carry residential power lines, even if there are no telecom wires on them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I call them that sometimes, but mostly just "power lines."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But what do you call the actual wooden pole that holds the power lines? Like if someone hit the pole how would you describe it?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Interesting. I haven't heard them called that, even though I'm in a state where most electricity is from hydro, And my state borders Canada.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Right. Cause we're not looney.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

To me "hydro line" sounds like a weird way to say "water pipe".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Mostly because hydro means water. Of course that would be confusing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

I would call it a hydro corridor.

[–] [email protected] 90 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And then we take it higher

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

motorcycle revs

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

American Torii Gateways.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago

Electric easement

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago

Right-of-way, right-o'way, utility easement

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Is this a contest for best comment? 🏆

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

Electric Avenue. Let's rock down to it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Strips cut through forested areas like this are generally called fire breaks. I don't know if there's a more specific term for those beneath power lines.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Down by the power lines

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Power lines.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

An electrical easement.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Utility cut

[–] stoy 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In Swedish it would be called "kraftledningsgata", directly translated to English that means "powerline street", but I already saw a better name for it in the comments "utility corridoor"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

🇸🇯 Strømgate - electrics street.

Or "Electric Avenue" as I've taken to calling them.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

the Cut. (Low and ominous)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If you put a tent there, I'd call it home.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

The Iron Giant's home

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

"right of way"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (10 children)

I seriously have a fantasy about hiking/backpacking the length of one of these. I wonder if there's a legal way to do that.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Peaceful wooded area with power transmission.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Easement corridor for power lines.

The area where there are always open camping sites in that one national park because no one wants to sleep under the high voltage lines and get cancer.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

It’s that scene from the Shining with the twins, being played by a couple of those giant robots I keep seeing on the hills while driving on I-5

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

The Dead Zone

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that sort of the opposite of a green belt?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I like zap way

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago
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