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Mayor and supervisors debate streetlight ownership; city cautioned against buying PG&E-owned assets
Summary
Mayor Ed Lee said mixed ownership of streetlights — SFPUC and PG&E — complicates maintenance; he advised against purchasing PG&E lights and outlined SFPUC capital plans to repair aging city-owned lights.
Mayor Ed Lee told the Board of Supervisors that San Francisco’s streetlighting system is split between the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and Pacific Gas & Electric Co., and that mixed ownership complicates accountability and repairs.
Supervisor Scott Wiener had convened a hearing and asked why street and pedestrian lighting is frequently unresponsive. The mayor said SFPUC owns and maintains more than 25,000 lights while PG&E owns…
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