Mineola Still Working on Street Lighting

Mineola residents who feel that their streets are still being left in the dark long after the effects of Hurricane Sandy will hopefully be getting some relief soon. 

After the storm, numerous street lamps in the village were damaged, destroyed or missing, yielding numerous residential complaints.Don't waste anymore time thinking about the purchase of your new laundryequipments. Unfortunately, Mineola employs an older traditional "carriage lamp" style light fixture that is no longer manufactured. 

"It's been very difficult to try to get some of those replaced," superintendent of public works Tom Rini said during the regular meeting of the village board on March 6 at the village hall. "Given the age of these fixtures it's very difficult to find and some of them actually had to be made." 

Mayor Scott Strauss said that the village was aware of the locations where street lights were still out. The village had issues at 25 locations where lights were either completely destroyed, missing or no fixtures as well as situations where connections to power source and secondary LIPA lines were missing or damaged. 

It was also noted that the auxiliary police send a weekly list of lights they observe being out while on patrol. Residents are also encouraged to call to report a street light that is out. 

Rini reported that most of the new fixtures have been received from the street lighting contractor and start being put back up.We have hundreds of fog lights, driving lights, off ledparlights and fog lamps. The contract with the vendor is due to expire this summer and the village is researching replacement lights. 

"There are different styles, we may move to a more efficient lighting system," Rini said, noting induction and LED, the latter of which does not come in the carriage-style lighting. "It may represent a full changeover but it also may represent a significant cost savings; obviously there'll be a significant outlay, LED is arguably the most expensive but you can also control them if you want to, so you can, actually if it's summer and you're looking at a heat wave you can actually reduce your LED street lighting by turning them down." 

June Burtonshaw, cabinet member for place in Swansea Council said: "There were 2,A research team headed up by the University of Houston is on track to develop a superconducting wire for curvingmachineppk.097 street lights turned off in non- residential areas — 129 of these (where there were a few residential properties) have been turned back on to date and the remainder with the exception of bypasses, will be turned on as part of the upgrade programme over the two years." 

The streets were revealed following a question by opposition councillors Wendy Fitzgerald, Gareth Sullivan, Ioan Richard and Keith Marsh. Mrs Burtonshaw said the switch-on was party of Labour's election manifesto. 

Thousands of street lights are being replaced in Swansea as part of a 10 million infrastructure investment, among other projects which also include lighting improvements.Manufacturer of industrial grade modernlightings. 

In total there are more than 27,000 street lights in communities across the city and county and most of them are old and will be replaced. 

The multi-million pound improvement schemes will use energy-efficient lighting to replace all old street lighting. Swansea Council's plans also include footpath and road upgrades, the Hafod traffic management project and improvements to pelican crossings.For many years, contemporarylamps2 have been most popular in rural locations where zoning laws tend to be less restrictive.