Street Light Facts

The Electrical Division of the Department of Infrastructure and Operations of the Public Works Agency maintains over 36,000 streetlights in the City of Oakland. The budget for street lighting is $2,950,000 for energy from PG&E and $957,000 for labor, materials and equipment. The Electrical Division usually responds to streetlight outages within 1 working day and checks back to see if the work was satisfactory. Oakland upgrades or installs approximately 300 streetlights each year in response to citizen requests. Oakland re-lamps and cleans the streetlight fixtures approximately every 6 years. There are 5.5 employees, including support staff assigned to the street lighting activity.

Facts About Oakland's Infrastructure - Street Lights and Traffic Signals

• Maintain 36,219 streetlights and 671 traffic signalized intersections.
• Repair over 1,800 streetlights and 2,220 traffic signals each year.
• Replace over 100 rusted-out, damaged, or knocked-down streetlight poles each year; and 125 rusted-out, damaged, or knocked-down traffic signal poles per year.
• Construct about 3 new traffic signals each year and continue expanding the bike lane network throughout Oakland.
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If you know of an Oakland streetlight that is out, please call (510) 615-5566; 24 hours, 7 days a week and report the location and pole number. Or, send an email to electrical@oaklandnet.com.

Read about requesting a new streetlight or upgrading an existing streetlight.