Manholes

In Woonsocket, Rhode Island, the City Council has ruled that from now on those metal-covered holes in our streets we've long called manholes will henceforth be known as person holes. ❋ Unknown (2001)

They stopped calling manholes manholes, because it was sexist. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So while we still have "manholes" and women in the U.S. make only 77 cents to every dollar a man brings home, and President Barack Obama needed a journalist to point out that his golf game buddies should not be of only one gender, the Sophia Smith Collection is there, offering the stories of women of all backgrounds and how they have campaigned for "change we can believe in." ❋ Unknown (2009)

The devices are used for maintenance purposes in locations where carrying a laptop is not possible, such as manholes and the tops of telephone poles. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Even some simple routines like automatically placing symbols such as manholes and cleanouts along lines would be handy or automatically aligning annotations to a view or linework. ❋ Unknown (2010)

LightLOC systems can reliably monitor access points such as manholes, drainage pipes, Hoffman enclosures, remote gates and culverts.

Ambient advertising -- ads in unusual places such as manholes, curbs, the sky, and the bottom of golf holes -- calms my conscience. ❋ Unknown (2009)

(a) They cost more to build, because they require deeper excavation, must withstand heavy loads on the street overhead, and also require expensive additional works such as manholes and inlets. ❋ Unknown (1991)

D.C. Fire and EMS is investigating smoke coming from four Pepco manholes in the 1300 block of H Street NE. ❋ Washington Post Editors (2010)

Thousands of manholes covers and lamp-posts along the route through Dublin have already been checked and sealed as part of the security operation. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Players like Tata Indicom, Reliance and Airtel are worse with several shady plans strewn around like manholes on an unlit road, you can easily walk into them if you are not looking hard enough. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Officials said traffic is shut down at those locations, as the manholes are in the street. ❋ Clarence Williams (2011)

When people are walking into poles and falling in uncovered manholes as well as being hit by cars while they are crossing the street and texting, who in their right mind would want to allow anyone to drive a car and text? ❋ Unknown (2009)

The car was incinerated, along with Edinborough's work tools, winter coat, sound system and GPS, after at least three manholes along Empire Boulevard exploded. ❋ Simon McCormack (2011)

You see them skip around where the ground is muddy, sometimes bathing in water from manholes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I'm giving the designer the benefit of the doubt that in some cities, manholes aren't always placed in the path of car traffic. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Aren't manholes usually in the middle of the street? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Fire calls, which encompass trees down, wires down, manholes, there up by about 50%. ❋ Michael Howard Saul (2011)

Two manholes are smoking underground in separate incidents in Northwest and Northeast Washington, which could cause traffic disruptions at the end of Thursday's rush hour, D.C. ❋ Clarence Williams (2011)