Valleywide : Residents Can Report Street Light Outages
Operation Bright Lights, a program to keep city street lights working, is under way again.
Sponsored by the Bureau of Street Lighting of the city’s Department of Public Works, the program allows residents to report broken street lights. Implemented in 1988, the program is designed to ensure that the city’s 228,000 street lights are fully operational.
“We want residents to know that our phone number is operational year round, and to remind them that we can’t keep our city lights functioning at maximum efficiency without their help,” said George Eslinger, director of the Bureau of Street Lighting.
Los Angeles residents can report non-working street lights by calling (800) 303-5267. For those traveling the Internet, Operation Bright Lights has two addresses: e-mail at streetlighting@bsl. ci.la.ca.us and World Wide Web at https://www.ci.la.ca.us/department/BSL/.
According to Department of Public Works spokeswoman Gerrilyn Mitchell, 35,300 units were serviced in 1993-94, 2,700 of which were damaged during the Northridge earthquake.
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