Telephone wires in NYC, in 1887. It had gotten this crazy just seven years after the first wires were strung. In 1888, a massive snowstorm toppled many of the wires, and New York soon decided to put them underground.
I've definitely seen wires like this in numerous cities in India. In Mexico, I mostly hang out in in a fairly small town (Bucerias) and while there are lots of wires running in every direction, the density is nothing like this, although in Mexico, they probably win the wires war by their liberal use of awesome splices using tar, rope, old frayed wires, and, of course, duct tape.
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Cities seem to experiment a little with things like wires and pipes. Putting up a massive system and then after ten twenty years move it into a better. Do think governments and cities plan ahead forty or fifty years?
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