Nicely done, Bureau of Street Lighting!

HEROES OF THE NIGHT, three technicians (during the day) promise good spirits and safer streets for the neighborhood.

The darker days and nights are on the horizon with fall afoot, but so are our city workers promising light again on Van Ness Avenue and First Street.

On Oct. 12 three technicians from L.A. Bureau of Street Lighting showed a group of children and their parents how our streetlights work on the block. “When this spot doesn’t detect sun it makes the light turn on,” said the technician pointing to a solar panel. “Pretty cool,” was the response of one of the children. The sigh of the parents expressed the same sentiment.

Recently vandalized streetlights have plagued streets throughout Hancock Park and Windsor Square on and off over the years when copper wires are stolen making the lights inoperable.

Recently, Council District 13 allocated $500,000 from its discretionary fund for overtime hours at the Bureau of Street Lighting to repair the broken lights in the neighborhoods.

The engineers on-site explained they are putting a security lock on the junction box access cover, and a steel plate covered in cement at the base. “Not impossible to break into, but it would take loud machinery—it would wake up the whole block,” said the technician.

The smiling engineer said about the return of lighting to the neighborhood, “You don’t know what you have until it’s gone!”

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