Nice! Not too much of a fan of the Unidors but I have to hand it to them, they're cool lights and well made from what i hear. this interchange here is very different now. All those light poles are gone, the ramps to the right are gone, and the bridge is gone. Just a regular curve now. They're not done yet. They have the bases for new lights but no poles yet that I know of.

Nice! We used to have a fair bit of Unidors but they got got waffled.

Any idea what Ngrid is gonna use? GE? Do they use tapered elliptical arms on the freeways there? Or is it still davits and truss

The old truss and tapered elliptical lights were owned by NGrid and leased to the state. they had individual PCs and were unmetered just like wood pole lights. All new installations are installed by RISE, which is a group of electrical union contractors that do work for NGrid. The new installations are controlled by contactor relay boxes and are metered and the state pretty much gets an electric bill for the lights instead of making lease payments. The relay controlled lights are also shut off in the middle of the night in some spots and come back on before the morning rush hour traffic.

The new lights on the GAR Highway (Grand Army of the Republic Highway, which is US Route 6) will probably be tall davits with 400W HPS FCO cobraheads if they use cobraheads. If not, maybe I'll be seeing more of my Mongoose friends... I'm thinking they'll be using davits and cobraheads though. They'll be state-owned lights though, not owned by NGrid. The state takes good care of their lights. There's always a few bad lamps but never huge strings out like with NGrid. NGrid doesn't care if the lights work because they're unmeteres meaning the lights are paid for whether they work or not. It wasn't until recently that the state started giving NGrid a boot in the @$$ so that's they they've been getting better, though they still suck at freeway lighting maintenance.

Well this whole stretch has had the trees removed wooden poles up and the ground is all dirt and leveled out. The lights are still here but for how long I cannot tell yet.

At Orenda there is a huge mountain of dirt!

UPDATE TO DATE: Long tapered e arms with AE 125's have been put on the temporary poles

I wonder why they don't just use the old fixtures as the temporary fixtures? Here they don't install temporary fixtures, just the old and the new. I guess here street lighting is seen as a luxury, not a necessity lol. They do use temporary signals set-ups though and use brand-new signals, which annoys me because they're in use like six months and then replaced and trashed.

They do sometimes , there were some B2255s that got reused as temp lights here but I think they scrapped them after they installed the new lighting. Signals vary, I've seen brand new temp signals to old Mark IVs that got reused. I even saw a incandescent signal get reused as a temp signal once.

Unfortunately that wasn't the case here. I didnt think they would because this stretch has some of the oldest obsolete signals and streetlights in Brampton. Its all AE 125's and I think there were a couple OVF's thrown in there too. It was last evening I noticed the temporary lights.

I believe I found another Brampton Model 25 to add to your count! Check this streetview shot.

Ah yes I always forget that one LOL. It is a Brampton owned light but its pushing close to Mississauga and their LED`s lol


Also they are using island yields on the NW and SW corner of Dixie and Orenda.

Heres an older (july) streetview. Here

They have also expo'd to the bridge that all us Bramalea people thought was a useless addition in 2009 Here