Who turned off the lights?

[PaddyShack]

OG&E replied to their delay on repairing many of the streetlights at highway interstate loops/bypasses as:
"We are still waiting for the City of Oklahoma City to maintenance the towers. We are unable to lower the towers to repair them until the city does the maintenance."

Thus, the city says it on OG&E. OG&E says its the city.

Unreal.

So OGE can only touch the light bulbs or something? Why would the pole/tower be separate from the light?

[AnguisHerba]

So OGE can only touch the light bulbs or something? Why would the pole/tower be separate from the light?

You can pay OG&E to install and maintain the lamp or the entire pole, fixture, and lamp. However, OG&E only provides a few types of poles/fixtures. So if the city wants to do something special that OG&E does not offer, then the city pays for the installation and maintenance of the pole, and they only pay OG&E to maintain the lamp. OG&E is not allowed to work on poles/fixtures that are not provided/maintained by them.

That's why street lighting is such a mess. You can walk down any given street and come across many types of poles and fixtures - some of which are maintained by the city and some of which are not. And of course, P180 streets are their own special hell because the poles and fixtures are almost all "special" in that way.

[bucktalk]

If reporting the outages compounds the problem -it seems that the highway patrol, police department could report outages, when time allows, while on their routes. The dark, foggy mornings with no streetlights, interstate loop lights, is a safety concern. On my way to work I counted 25 lights out at interstate loops. Unreal.