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Lanterns/Fixtures => News about Lanterns/Fixtures => Topic started by: Mike on October 13, 2011, 03:29:58 PM

Title: "What do you mean the street light in front of my house was repossesed!"
Post by: Mike on October 13, 2011, 03:29:58 PM: Well, it's true folks. Looks like one city lost it's marbles. :8) :o
http://www.odetorium.com/2011/10/citys-street-lights-repossessed.html (http://www.odetorium.com/2011/10/citys-street-lights-repossessed.html)
Title: Re: "What do you mean the street light in front of my house was repossesed!"
Post by: gailgrove on October 13, 2011, 04:43:30 PM: I think we all saw this on Vintage Street Lights already. ;) But it is crazy :o I'm glade the city owns the lights here!
Title: Re: "What do you mean the street light in front of my house was repossesed!"
Post by: Mike on October 13, 2011, 05:04:29 PM: National Grid owns all the lights here, but if the city won't "red cap" the lights they certainly won't take them down. they'll raise taxes instead. :(
Title: Re: "What do you mean the street light in front of my house was repossesed!"
Post by: joe_347V on October 13, 2011, 06:09:17 PM: Hmm I didn't see this before :p I believe the streetlights in my area are town owned too and I've never really saw them red cap any lights here.
Title: Re: "What do you mean the street light in front of my house was repossesed!"
Post by: Mike on October 13, 2011, 07:11:06 PM: Well, guess who sent this to me. :P I forgot my log-in inforamtion so i can't login to vintage streetlights :(
Title: Re: "What do you mean the street light in front of my house was repossesed!"
Post by: rjluna2 on October 13, 2011, 07:42:07 PM: That is really bad that the city can't pay the streetlights electricity bill and there goes the neighborhood in the dark >:( :(

I don't know where and how they get the money to pay the streetlight at the said neighborhood ???

As I read my neighborhood article (http://www.galleryoflights.org/mb/index.php?topic=332.0) scandal, at least I know that we pay streetlight usage through our utility bills.
Title: Re: "What do you mean the street light in front of my house was repossesed!"
Post by: Mike on October 13, 2011, 08:43:59 PM: All electric companies I can think of will charge the streetlight rental to the municipality and the municipality will pay for it through taxes. So in a way, we actually DO pay for the streetlights.
Title: Re: "What do you mean the street light in front of my house was repossesed!"
Post by: joe_347V on October 30, 2011, 12:31:08 PM: Toronto actually sold off their streetlights in 2005 or so to the utility company so they don't own them anymore.