Dallas Streetlights

[slfunk]

To ease some concerns. I have seen TXU out the past few days changing street lights. A couple of weeks ago they were changing lights in the West End.

[hookbilledkite]

TXU is very difficult to work with. I have had issues with them clearing vegetation along their power line right of ways. They find any excuse possible to get out of doing it, thus leaving the work up to the property owners or the city. I have had to spend quite a bit of money taking care of their responsibilities for them.

Now you know why their vegetation management office has no phone number listed anywhere in the phone book or on their website.

[FoUTASportscaster]

Go to the txu website and fill out the contact/complaint form, hopefully the more they get the faster they'll fix them.

To report a broken streetlight, contact:

TXU Electric Delivery at 888-313-4747 or www.txuelectricdelivery.com

The city of Dallas by calling 311 or visiting DallasCityHall.com.

Dallas street lighting manager Brad Moss for downtown pedestrian lights, 214-670-1229.

I need your help guys. I have been to the above website numerous times and they have yet to fix the streetlights on Main in front of the Bank One Center. I have also been to the building management and they don't care. At night this is a very heavily traveled area and thanks to the Merc redevelopment and these burnt out lights, it is almost completely dark. I want to avoid anything happenong here and make it feel like a safe place. The website will ask for your name, phone number and e-mail address.
Then it will ask for for location info, which I put "On the north side of Main Street between Ervay and St Paul Streets, bordering the Bank One Center at 1717 Main Street."
Then city, St, address - 1717 Main. Next thing to fill in is intersection, which is Main and St Paul. The next one is pole number, which are 42120-42130. Then check the light not on box.

Then hit submit and it will ask if you have more, then check yes and do the next pole number.

If you guys can find 10 minutes, we can solve a problem before it is a problem.

Thanks guys

[DFWCRE8TIVE]

Dallas needs some of these:

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/TECH/07/24/solar.trees/art.solar.trees.jpg

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/07/24/solar.trees/index.html

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Taking inspiration from nature, designer Ross Lovegrove has brought beauty to an everyday object that few give a passing thought to: the streetlamp.
Ross Lovegrove's 'Solar Tree' at night. The second generation tree will be fully automated and able to follow the sun.

The energy intensive lamps are quite literally, and figuratively, getting a green makeover and may be sprouting on a street near you soon.

Lovegrove's innovative lighting project, the "Solar Tree," is a solar-powered streetlamp that also serves as a piece of modern art, infusing a bit of nature into the usually gray urban landscape.

He believes that putting complex natural forms in a city can benefit all of society.

The "Solar Tree" has a striking green trunk and ten branches with solar panels that radiate light on the street below.

"The light looks pretty good when it's off. Most of the other lights out there have no life in them when they are off. I've seen more life in an old guy sleeping on a park bench then I have in some of those other streetlamps," Lovegrove told CNN.

The lamps were first planted, to much acclaim, on the Ringstrasse in Vienna in October 2007 in collaboration with MAK, the Museum of Applied Arts.

During their stay in Vienna the lamps were still able to give off light after four days without direct sunlight, making them an effective form of lighting.

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[RobertB]

I split off the previous non-streetlight-related discussion into another thread (and locked it). Let me know if there are any salient posts that should be moved back into this thread.