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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bowser claims the opposite.

“Crowding and population density... are the most important factors in determining the havoc the virus can wreak....This is not just because more crowded areas increase the risk of spread, but also because we’re learning that crowding itself may also affect the death rate.”

We Know Crowding Affects the Spread. It May Affect the Death Rate.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/opinion/coronavirus-crowds.html?referringSource=articleShare
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Bowser is considering this a 'one off' scenario that should not prejudice her otherwise sound plan.

She has already thought through the other requirements for her densification and has planned accordingly with massively modernized water supply, enhanced robust electrical grid, flexible growing schooling plan for kids K-12, a responsive a growing public transportation network, and an economic base that expands beyond government and lobbying. I believe those chapters of the COMP Plan are getting published in May. /s[/quote]

DC PLUG actually addresses putting the lines underground https://www.pepco.com/SmartEnergy/ReliabilityImprovements/Pages/DCPLUG.aspx

However, PEPCO ended up agreeing to this because they did not want to outlay capital to really modernize the system. They actually will modernize right now if they are allowed to pass costs off to the customer. However, by law they cannot do that with City Council involvement

” Anenhanced robust electrical grid” - this means they will allow Pepco to cut down all of the street trees to put even heavier wires on the poles.
“A flexible growing schooling plan for kids K-12, a responsive a growing public transportation network” - this means put more an more students into the same set of WOTP and to hope for the best.[/quote]

So these are topics for another post but an enhanced electrical grid is the opposite of what you are saying. It would be a lighter, more flexible, robust and redundant system that not only distributes power from far away electrical sources, but also within the city solar, battery etc. It can handle flow back onto the grid safely and for the most part can heal itself once it identifies problems. Just bringing our decades old system into modern times.

School have to to grow and improve (they have to do that now and they will have to do that at a MUCH larger scale)

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It’s surprising that the Comp Plan doesn’t have as a goal the undergrounding of utility wires, with all of the benefits that would bring for reliability during storms, the tree canopy and aesthetics.  But I assume PEPCo long ago captured the Council and the regulator, so nothing will happen.[/quote][/quote]

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