Gallery of Lights
Lanterns/Fixtures => News about Lanterns/Fixtures => Topic started by: Mike on October 13, 2011, 03:29:58 PM
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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)
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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!
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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. :(
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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.
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Well, guess who sent this to me. :P I forgot my log-in inforamtion so i can't login to vintage streetlights :(
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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.
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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.
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Toronto actually sold off their streetlights in 2005 or so to the utility company so they don't own them anymore.