Yeah, this does seem really unsafe. Someone tried to fix it once to to cover the wires, but it keeps getting backed over

Thank you for bringing this concern to our attention. A City staff member will look into this and contact the company responsible for maintaining the pedestal.

The pedestal in question is an old GTE pedestal. Frontier Communications has been contacted to repair the pedestal. City staff placed a traffic cone over the concern to temporarily make the area safer.