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Why are there so many inoperable street lights along Louisiana's highways?
Posted on 5/6/24 at 11:02 am
Posted on 5/6/24 at 11:02 am
And almost none of them that do work have been converted to LED....
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Posted on 5/6/24 at 11:03 am to member12
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Why are there so many inoperable street lights along Louisiana's highways?
Because Entergy is responsible for maintaining them. And Entergy is arguably just as hopeless as LaDOTD.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 11:03 am to member12
Because fixing things that are broken is not very Louisiana.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 11:05 am to member12
Because those tax dollars are better spent giving stuff away to people who can fend for themselves
Posted on 5/6/24 at 11:07 am to member12
There is a way to report an outage on Entergy's website. I've reported some before, but they never really get repaired. If they do, it takes years to see anything done.
I'm not exaggerating on that either. The overhead lights along the I-110/Airline stack interchange were out for at least a year.
I'm not exaggerating on that either. The overhead lights along the I-110/Airline stack interchange were out for at least a year.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 11:58 am to member12
Among other reasons they're often intentionally disconnected at construction sites. Which is basically half the state at any given time.
Also led streetlights suck almost as bad as led headlights.
Also led streetlights suck almost as bad as led headlights.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 12:34 pm to member12
Because our process for notifying the public entity in charge is complicated. Or nobody tells them.
I've had a good bit of success on Baton Rouge's 311 website for public services.
I've had a good bit of success on Baton Rouge's 311 website for public services.
This post was edited on 5/6/24 at 12:35 pm
Posted on 5/6/24 at 12:49 pm to member12
In Jxn, MS, meth heads are blamed for stealing the copper out of them.
This post was edited on 5/6/24 at 7:54 pm
Posted on 5/6/24 at 12:59 pm to beerandt
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Also led streetlights suck almost as bad as led headlights.
They are very bright.
It's harder to get the older style mercury vapor bulbs these days. They need to convert the hardware to LED sooner rather than later. They did it on 3rd street and a few other places downtown, but it's pretty much not happening anywhere else that I can see.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 1:00 pm to member12
Infrastructure in general has crumbled in Louisiana in the past 20 years... and, considering the state of things before, that says a lot.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 1:01 pm to goofball
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There is a way to report an outage on Entergy's website.
I just found where to report them. You have to click on the light itself on a map. I reported a bunch just now that have been out for a long time.
I'm sure Entergy will have it replaced by 2029 at the latest.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 1:26 pm to member12
I mean, you have headlights, right?
Posted on 5/6/24 at 1:28 pm to dewster
This man has the correct answer.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 1:55 pm to greenbean
quote:Arch too?
In Jxn, MS, meth heads are blamed for stealing the cooper out of them.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 2:01 pm to MintBerry Crunch
If Entergy, then I would leave them alone, we don't need them raising our rates anymore
Posted on 5/6/24 at 2:08 pm to member12
Let’s just start with getting some asphalt on our roads first…
Posted on 5/6/24 at 2:09 pm to nicholastiger
I'd rather them be out in some place than those LED spotlights
Posted on 5/6/24 at 2:35 pm to member12
An insurance adjustor mentioned to me that La DOTD spends over $1 million a year just repairing the torn up guardrails in the 5 parish area of Baton Rouge. Sometimes a guardrail is repaired and the next weekend a drunk driver will take out the just repaired guardrail.
Same with the light poles. A drunk will take out a pole on a Friday night and it knocks out several lights around it. Supply chain issues make it hard to replace the light fixtures.
And the crack heads steal the wiring. Downtown next to the Federal Court house homeless folks had pulled the wiring out of a traffic light box so the could charge up their phones.
Same with the light poles. A drunk will take out a pole on a Friday night and it knocks out several lights around it. Supply chain issues make it hard to replace the light fixtures.
And the crack heads steal the wiring. Downtown next to the Federal Court house homeless folks had pulled the wiring out of a traffic light box so the could charge up their phones.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 4:19 pm to goofball
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It's harder to get the older style mercury vapor bulbs these days. They need to convert the hardware to LED sooner rather than later.
They are about to replace the all the lighting on the I-10 project in Baton Rouge with LED.
If the older style bulbs are so hard to get, they should take the ones that still work from that section and use them in the thousands of other places where Entergy’s street/highway lights are not working.
This post was edited on 5/6/24 at 4:24 pm
Posted on 5/6/24 at 5:44 pm to member12
The answer is in the question. 2nd to last word.
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