Is This Not A Problem Yet For The Folks In London? How About For Rob Perry or Kamal Johnson?

 

As if it needs repeating on HUDseen:  National Grid, the utiltiy company that supplies Hudson with all of its electricity and natural gas and that owns all of Hudson's wooden utility poles and the electric lines attached to the top of them, including the pole shown above leaning ominously over Prison Alley, is headquartered in London.  Not London, NY (there isn't one).  Not London, Ohio (there is one).  But London, England.  You know, the city and country found across the Atlantic Ocean in Europe.

The grey cylindrical tanks seen at the top of National Grid's poles are known as transformers. They take incoming high voltage and bring it down to a level that can be safely used inside buildings.  When they explode, things get ugly and fiery.

It's not true that National Grid owns all the 
wooden utility poles in town.  Once they install a new pole 
next to an old pole and transfer their lines, the old one is no longer  
their responsibility.  So who the heck owns it?  Does Rob Perry care
who owns it and who is responsible for it?
Does Rob Perry care that National Grid doesn't care?