It's no secret that many our streets have being without lights for three weeks. This reality hard to accept. Bottomline: we are not being ignored. Richard Saplan is the Street Lighting Engineer with Bureau of Street Lightings in our area. He writes:

I appreciate your email and have been working closely with Madelynn providing her with updates as quickly as I get them. She has been a great liaison.

As far as solving the problems with the streetlights in the Whitley Terrace and surrounding areas, the Bureau of Street Lighting is working on solving the issues from two different approaches. 

First, our crews had gone out, as you noted, and made repairs to the existing street lighting infrastructure this month. The street lighting system that exists is older and the most recent repair was substantial requiring a full inspection of the underground wires that were involved with the shorted circuit run. Once the break in the wire that caused the short was found, the wire, fuses, and lamps were replaced and reinstalled. Unfortunately, it seems that the circuit has suffered another issue of unknown origin at the moment. Our crews will be going out to inspect the circuit. I was told that the inspection was to happen some time today.

Second, in an effort to upgrade and reduce the power consumed in our street lighting circuits, a plan is already in the works to replace the circuit in the Whitley Terrace and surrounding areas. This plan will replace the existing circuit with a lower voltage circuit that will allow for newer lamp types which have a longer lifespan. I am working with the group that heads this effort to get Whitley Terrace queued up soon. A date for the construction has not yet been decided.

I hope that helps shed some light on what BSL is doing to solve the lighting issues, what is going on with the current lighting, and the future of the lighting in the area.

Stay safe and be well. Kind Regards, Richard Saplan Street Lighting Engineering Associate City of Los Angeles, Bureau of St. Lighting BSL's purpose "To provide comfortable visibility that will encourage vehicular and pedestrian traffic"