Councilor Jerry Guardo, council’s chairperson for the committee on infrastructure, said the city planned to build the underground connections similar to that of other countries where electrical and telecommunication wires would be buried underground.
This will take years as the underground installation by VECO is traditional, and requires excavating the sidewalks to install the pipelines.Guardo said this was the reason the city had to build its own underground wiring pipeline for telcos to avoid individual companies from having to install their own, which could constitute multiple excavations.
Guardo said the city was still smoothing out the details of the JVA, which would be a public private partnership. The private company is also offering “top technology” installation, which would use digital scanning and suction instead of excavation.