The Los Angeles Bureau of Street Lighting reported that about 15% of its streetlight system was affected by outages, that nearly half of service requests were attributed to wire theft, and that having fewer than 200 field staff to cover roughly 250,000 streetlights contributed to repair backlogs of approximately nine to twelve months.
September 01, 2025
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Operational statistics and staffing levels reported by the municipal Bureau of Street Lighting in 2025.