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question lines there haven't been very money put underground just downtown new york city and elsewhere. And where the issue came to grips here in Woodside was whether or not in a lovely scenic area line should go underground or overhead. And this, this was one of the

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major pioneering fights in the country. There are others going on in Connecticut, the Connecticut river valley in new york and the Hudson River, the storm king project there. But this was the first and I just can't honor these people enough they can use when they build

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a new front. Good, excellent. Yeah. And keep really shooting it. Okay, another place he doesn't want to, the remaining eyesore power poles will be taken down as soon as underground facilities are completed. The underground ng means more to congressman McCluskey than to most residents of Woodside.

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It was his successful leadership to bury the power lines that launched his political career. Ben Williams reporting for eyewitness news from Woodside. You only need look behind me and you see how it used to be. That that's a typical example right up there of what the

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whole town used to look at. Big poll, three or four or five crossbars and a lot of wires right through the heart of the city, right through the middle of the town. And now look look over this way at the skyline ridge and you see how

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it's going to look when all of the wires are down and you notice the difference. It's beautiful. That's one of the loveliest ridge lines in the world and it's a result of the fight that the people of this town put up. It's a result of the

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willingness of the people of the town to tax themselves a little more to get the lines underground and more than anything else, to hang tough in the fight and to say to the PG and E. And the A. E. C. You're wrong when you try to

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put more of these lines in the landscape and it set a guide for the whole country. And I think most of the towns in the country are adopting similar ordinances.