Seattle City Councilmember Bruce Harrell

More great news regarding our city’s streetlights! As you know, City Light has made great strides in improving the streetlight functionality in our city. Repairs are on a ten-day-turn-around (unless it requires more than a bulb change) and we have begun our transition to the brighter, more efficient LED streetlights. Now, there is an online system that enables customers to track streetlight repairs for reported outages. This is particularly useful in the summertime when streetlights do not come on until nearly 10:00. Many people are in for the night by that time and would have no way of knowing whether the streetlight had been repaired. With the new online tracking system that information is easily accessible. As I have noted before, properly functioning streetlights are a core service provided by the city that are essential to enhancement of public safety. This repair tracking system is another tool to advance our streetlight efforts.

Back in 2004 more than 23,000 streetlight outages were reported and sometimes it took months for a light to be repaired. Because of my concern for safe neighborhoods, I changed polices and demanded implementation that has reduced the backlog to nearly 1,000 outages with nearly 90 percent being repaired within 14 days or less. This is great progress!

Please go to http://www.seattle.gov/light/streetlight/tracker.asp to see the map, report streetlight outages and to track their repair.

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