Without context the photos are meaningless - those wires may be part of an old abandoned circuit for all we know. Or they could be live and just waiting for a chance to arc in a leaky gas environment.
That would still be sloppy engineering not to dismantle and remove abandoned equipment.
So what? It costs money to dismantle and remove, and most folks won't do it until they HAVE to because the old stuff is in the way of the new stuff.
I still think that was sloppy, just the opinion of a former electrical engineer who designed industrial power and lighting systems.
Hey, I'm a current engineer who designs networks of all sizes. I agree with you - it's sloppy. It's also the way most people and organizations work. I've got a client who's "grown" a data center over the past ten years and I have asked at every opportunity to put in a structured cabling system and tear out the rats nest of power, and copper and fiber data cables underneath the raised floor. And every year it's "no". So we cut out the old cables and leave their carcasses in the space, and run new cabling on top. And every so often somebody complains to the client and he comes and says "why's it so messy", and I refer him back to the documentation of all his decisions. And he shuts up, and gives me the same "no" next time I try to solve the problem.
Too many pronouns, not enough antecedents. Do "They", "their" and "they" above mean "FAA and TxDot"?
