Tuesday, June 02, 2015

meanwhile, in transportation news, a section of NY Subway gets shut down and snarled due to copper theft of power lines

A decade ago, copper was 80 cents a pound. Now, it's 3 dollars a pound, and this has risk takers stealing power lines, plumbing, etc from anything that isn't watched, like apartment building utility closets, fire hydrant covers, and now high voltage power lines on subway train tracks.

 In Washington state in 2013, a man clipped 70,000 pounds of copper wire from the light rail tracks south of Seattle. That same year, some telecommunications linemen at New York's Long Island Rail Road made off with $250,000 worth of copper in 56 thefts.

In the May 26 heist in the Howard Beach section of Queens, the rubber-shrouded cable had an estimated combined weight of 1,500 pounds that could fetch about $4,500.

http://news.yahoo.com/copper-thefts-rails-rise-price-metal-050123419--finance.html

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