Still HPS, eh? I see they didn't bother leveling the OVFs lol. Weird that they used different length arms. The freeway lights here use shorter poles and shorter arms on the ramps and tall poles with longer arms on the freeways but they're consistent (when the poles are new anyway; spot replacements are the correct pole height bur the arm length and radius of the davit bent varies greatly).

Yeah this style of setups are becoming more common here. The arms I have never seen in use here prior. The only LEDs are the wallpacks under that train bridge. To be honest this project was suppose to be done last year, so they were probably rushing to finish it and didnt bother leveling it. I dont know whats taking so long for this city to convert to LED. Most of my province is LED now. Mercs are almost all gone. All within the last few years. HPS is dwindling as well.

This road lighting is very inconsistant. Once upon a time it was relatively consistant. Davits and some concrete poles all along. As the city expanded outward, a new toll highway, and road widening projects carried out everything began to be inconsistant. Now this road isnt consitant too much than a KM or a few apart from eachother.

Ive seen the streetviews and lighting youve posted and especially your highways seem to stay really consistant. Even our own davits vary bends and lengths.

Most of the time they don't care about the proper leveling anyway. Those guys get paid by the hour so they are in no rush by any means. They were probably just being lazy. The electric company here still uses all HPS but the state DOT is moving to all LED lights.

Being from Brampton as well,
I'm thinking this project is the absolute last contract to specify HPS. A few other streets had these HPS OVF's used recently, but those for sure were planned and funded years ago, but were held up for 5+ years for random utility conflicts, so I guess like other things what's already funded goes as designed.

Speaking of contracts, my theory why we haven't converted existing HPS to LED is our spot replacement contractor is slapping on new OVX/AE115's all over the city at no end, so maybe all those lights have racked up a bill and there is not much budget room now for retrofitting the whole city to LED. Perhaps the contract doesn't allow LED, so we're waiting for it to expire before LED's take over.

Ah yeah they're redesigning an area near me in Warwick called the Apponaug Circulator (pronounced "AP-uh-nog" BTW) where they're replacing the current circle-shaped one-way road with two-way roads with roundabouts to improve traffic flow. Here's RIDOT's page about the project for interest's sake. What's weird is that they started putting up the light poles and they're group-switched HPS FCO lights instead of individually switched LEDs with "SMART" photocells. I guess the reasoning is what you said; the project was designed and funds were allocated before they started using LEDs. I think the project was designed back in 2013. The first LEDs didn't appear in RIDOT's system until late 2014 and the mass-conversions didn't start until this year.

Anway, if you click that green button "VIEW CONSTRUCTION CAMS!" you can see one of the intersections as it is changed. Note they added a road to the front right that will replace the road to the front left.

Yeah Brampton, Richmond Hill and Toronto are the only cities in the GTA that still haven't had a mass changeout to LED yet. I wonder if Brampton is using up their stock of HPS fixtures by not changing out or are waiting out the warranty period on those HPS lights lol.

Markham also has a small amount of HPS left, since there have been no more new LED installs this year, I wonder if they ran out of money for the streetlight changeout fund during the mass replacements in 2013-2015.

Toronto started test installs of LED back in December, King street in the Financial District is one of the test sites. The previous lights were 400w MH OV-25s and B2255s.

Not sure about Richmond Hill, I suspect the stricter Dark Sky bylaws there compared to the rest of the GTA there might still prohibit white light sources like LED to be used for streetlighting. They might be keeping FCO HPS until they get around to amending the bylaw.

Yeah seems everywhere you go is LED now except for those few cities. Niagara region has some now too. Could be a warranty issue for Brampton, who knows.

Yeah I seen the LEDs there in Toronto. I wonder if they are putting some on the bare arm poles on King st too.

Never heard of the dark skys bylaw there interesting.