Electric Valley? Wire Canyon? Zap Way?
Utility corridor. Sometimes a “Right of Way”.
Depending on where you live, “hydro lines” or “transmission lines” or similar.
I used the term Hydro line once on Reddit and had a lot of people asking what the hell I was talking about.
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.
Similarly, in the US we have “telephone poles” to carry residential power lines, even if there are no telecom wires on them.
I call them that sometimes, but mostly just “power lines.”
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?
Sometimes telephone pole, sometimes utility pole.
Utility poles. Could carry electricity and/or telephone and/or cable tv. In some places it may be home to street lights, sirens, emergency signals, fiber optic cables & junctions/splitters, or other infrastructure.
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.
Well hello there Washington citizen! WA is the only state in the US to get most of its electricity from hydro.
You’ve got a great river system up there and WA manages to put it all to great use. If the whole country had that kind of river network, perhaps we’d all be running on renewables…
Ah - I didn’t know we were the only ones who do. But yes, it’s nice to have that. I understand we also have the largest ferry system in at least the US, although I think that’s not directly related to the rivers.
Right. Cause we’re not looney.
I sure am
To me “hydro line” sounds like a weird way to say “water pipe”.
Mostly because hydro means water. Of course that would be confusing.
I would call it a hydro corridor.
Electric Avenue
And then we take it higher
motorcycle revs
American Torii Gateways.
Electric easement
Right-of-way, right-o’way, utility easement
Liminal.
Electricitrees
Is this a contest for best comment? 🏆
Electric Avenue. Let’s rock down to it.
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.
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Power lines.
An electrical easement.
Utility cut
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”
🇸🇯 Strømgate - electrics street.
Or “Electric Avenue” as I’ve taken to calling them.
And then we’ll take it higher.
“right of way”
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.
I haven’t done the full length of one but I’ve gone pretty far down one before
Basically you just need to figure out who owns the land and depending on that would depend on if you can legally or not
When I did it though I didn’t check first because I was basically banking on the fact it was near a national forest so if someone stopped me I’d claim (accurately) that I didn’t know it wasn’t a part of the national forest. Of course I’m not sure if it is a part of it or not, but if I did get stopped at least I’d know for sure. I didn’t get stopped but I did have a nice day out there.
“Land of the free”, doesn’t have right to roam…
NGL I really wish we had that here
There’s some beautiful places that are cut off from people because of it being private property
The worst is when someplace becomes private property after being open to the public for a long time
Because it’s not needed outside the eastern US. The vast majority of land around me is public and anyone can go out. Right to roam would just give me the right to trample through someone’s property when there’s plenty of public land to go around it with, which is what right to roam usually entails anyways.
This is genuinely a states issue and not something federal.
Walking very close to someone’s home is also illegal with the right to roam. The right to roam just gives everyone the right to walk were they want except in someone’s garden. You can also camp anywhere (gardens excluded of course) for a day (or two can’t remember) without asking anyone for permission.
One kinda surprising thing is that everyone is allowed to enter fenced animal pastures, provided that they aren’t malicious and that they close the gate.
It’s an amazing right that should exist in the entire world.
You don’t seem to understand that my house, my town, and the majority of my state, are massive amounts of public forest. I have every right to wander and camp, as long as I’m not squatting (which is it’s own mess of an issue where what counts “permanently inhabiting” an area), anywhere in that public forest.
Why would my state govt have any reason to enshrine a right that would just make more people trespass because they don’t understand the law? Those that follow that law would then have nothing change.
This is why I say it’s a states’ issue. This won’t be the same across the entire US.
Trespassing isn’t really an issue here so why would it be an issue there?
If it’s legal now, then passing a law country wide would be no issue.
I am just of the opinion that this should be right everywhere regardless of where you live in the world.
Btw, I am just curious, is it rare in the USA to see berry and mushroom pickers? That’s included in the rights so we do have a lot of them.
There are people who harvest wild food, yes. I think you need to understand that just our national forests are almost twice the size of the entirety of Sweden. Then there are state forests, national parks, and state parks. Texas alone is 50% larger than Sweden, and Alaska is 3x larger than Texas.
