Left: Streetlights on Grant Avenue in North Beach.Today's Examiner reports on the holes in streetlight service around the City, and how they appear to be growing.
Residents on Van Ness Avenue said city bureaucracy is leaving them in the dark, with streetlights on the thoroughfare constantly broken and without a city worker or agency that can tell them who will help.
A coalition of concerned residents say they have been complaining about the lights, which periodically switch off, for about a year. City officials say the problem rests with aging infrastructure and a complicated transmission system that must be shut off entirely when any work is being done.
This week, at least six blocks were left dark — and possibly the entire stretch of Van Ness Avenue — for a night after the Public Utilities Commission did some repair work.
Do you have streetlight problems in your neighborhood?
Let us know. We'll take pictures and let the right people know.
Scapegoat of the Week runs tomorrow.
Discussion on The Wall forum
DPW: Reporting Streetlight Problems
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