Since the main branches that they could branch off from were not on our side of our street, the phone company had 2 options: 1) dig a trench across the street, or 2) dig a trench through the yard of a neighbor whose property backed onto ours. And the neighbor whose yard was going to have to be trenched for this had done some pretty elaborate landscaping in their backyard (and it was gorgeous), and the phone company had to make sure everything was gotten back to the way it had been. The neighbors held the whole thing up a week or two, trying to stop the phone company from digging up their yard, and wouldn't budge until someone's lawyer pulled out the law that let the phone company do that sort of thing.
You mean people owned a piece of property but they had no control over what was being done with it, for the sake of a phone line? Sounds like another example that people are just renting the ground from the government.
Kevin T.
I can't find the oil filter on my car!
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