I love Boston's hack wiring for their lights. It's unbelievable!

We have some pretty bad wiring jobs too.

Yep, there are some great hacks out there!

Did they use a green wire for hot?!

What I find alarming is it seems all of Boston's lights are hacks like this.

Nah, I've been to boston and most still have the underground cable, but there are soem strings that have overhead wiring like this one.

My area actually has traffic signals with failed underground cables and now has overhead feed wires to the poles instead.

Thankfully that isn't done anywhere here, of course we seem to replace traffic signals as soon as they turn 20 years old, if not sooner. Some intersections have been replaced after less than 6 years.

That's a weird wiring job i hope who did that did not get paid for that ( what i call no work at all) that would be very.........

There is no wiring like that here. Xcel energy is good about messy wiring. So you don't see poles wired like up there. Sometimes you see light poles connected to the ground with overhead wiring, but those feed in at the arm's end so it still looks neat.

Here sometimes temporary overhead feeds are neat looking and tend to get fixed quite quickly, by the looks of this the underground feed failed and they had no plans to replace it, the same thing happens in Toronto. Toronto is just as big a mess as this.

I don't think they even replace those overhead feeds, this has a overhead feed since 2007.

Overhead feeds are more common in Xcel energy if they use utility poles. And utility poles with fixtures on them is pretty common in Denver anyway.

Overhead feeds aren't that common on metal poles anyway, you see them from time to time but not often.

Any overhead feeds here are done by National Grid so they're done with the utility cables and done right. RIDOT seems very closely tied with the electric company. I think NGrid may own, service, and maybe even install some if not all RIDOT lights. I'm not sure though; just a guess.

It looks like they took a small chunk off the OVH! Like instead of drilling a hole they just broke a pice of the metal to let the wires run in.

WHY do that?!

Laziness, why else? They could of just run the wires in around the slipfitter but they took the quick way out.

Somehow I don't think breaking the fixture is that easy. It would be MUCH easier to run it through the slipfitter.

Nah. Just need to hammer a flat head screwdriver into the housing and you have a nice hole.

That or tin snips.

My guess is they took some linemens grabbed the housing and broke it out that way, I don't think tin snips would quite cut it (no pun intended) My wouldn't anyways.