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by Prickle 946 days ago
I was fully expecting cost or safety being an issue, but I did not expect this: (Specifically for the "Land of Giants" project.)

> A proposal in Norway faltered after a local mayor - spotting the visitor attraction potential of the structures - agreed they could be built in his town, as long as they weren't built anywhere else in the country.

Quite sad that alternative shaped (?) Pylons do exist, and some of them are really neat; yet are hampered by politics.