Good idea running a pilot that combines electrification and fiber. The city will learn a lot and work out a lot of kinks from doing a small fiber pilot making it faster and cheaper than otherwise as they ramp up.

Why can't we use this opportunity to remove the poles put all these wires underground? It's just not credible to say it's too expensive when we're already paying hundreds of millions on this project and there's hundreds of millions more in profits for the providers at stake here. Saving money by avoiding the constant pole replacement and accidents with drivers, drones, trees and animals would help pay for it, not to mention improved service by eliminating all the disruption of service those problems entail.

Echoing the comments by Jonathan Brown and still wondering if and when areas that already have underground wiring might benefit from the city's huge expenditures on the fiber project. Also wondering why it took them so long to admit that those neighborhoods with undergrounding had to "go the back of the line" -- which in PA must mean decades.