Joint Program to Shine More Light on 84 City Parks
A new program to improve lighting at 84 parks across Los Angeles will be unveiled Monday.
Officials from the Department of Water and Power and from Parks and Recreation will hold a 10 a.m. news conference at Lanark Park, at Owensmouth Avenue and Strathern Street, under new light fixtures acquired through the departments’ partnership. The timetable for the project will be announced at the event.
“It’s the first project of its kind, the first real citywide program that’s going to touch a variety of communities,” said Rick Sessinghaus, interim general manager of Parks and Recreation. “We will be lighting areas adjacent to our gymnasiums and other structures to provide safer access to and from parking lots and the street.”
The Department of Water and Power is waiving installation fees.
The light fixtures will be mounted on existing DWP power poles, facing the parks. The piggybacking eliminates the cost and delay of installing new poles.
The new lights at Lanark Park took just two days to install, from start to finish, as opposed to the usual two years of bureaucratic red tape, said Steven Soboroff, president of the Parks and Recreation Commission.
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