03-16-2017, 02:05 PM
(03-15-2017, 01:16 PM)GtwoK Wrote: Oh, wow!! I completely had understood that only the "regional roads" would be switching to LED, which I assumed meant the roads that were numbered - Victoria St being RR 55, Charles being RR 64, King being RR 15, etc. But that map shows that basically every streetlight in the region is being changed! That's great!
Yeah it was a Regional initiative and in the original product evaluation there were different scenarios specific to the cities. Tendered out as one package likely for price efficiency and a common system across the region.
They are only doing the cobra head type fixtures for now. None of the decorative fixtures in the downtown cores are being touched. The King St. streetscape improvements being tendered now will have new LED lights in the same acorn looking fixture. Manufacturers have retrofit kits for all of these types so they will get done eventually.
Some areas in my neighbourhood in Cambridge won't get the upgrade right now because they have the post top fixtures so they will be done under a separate contract eventually, or maybe they will replace the whole pole while they are at it.