By SUE SUCHYTA
Sunday Times Newspapers
ALLEN PARK – City officials will take advantage of ongoing Southfield Road construction to get a deal on lighting along the route.
The City Council voted Tuesday to add replacement of the current streetlight system to the project at less than half what it otherwise would cost.
City Administrator Eric Waidelich said during a work session prior to the council meeting that the current Southfield construction offers an ideal time to replace the streetlights with newer, more aesthetically pleasing light poles.
The new posts will be one-piece, fluted and tapered with a black finish and a decorative clamshell base with twin arms on top. Each will have four banner arms as well. The lamps will be teardrop-type glass optics and Holophane lights.
The project involves 126 street lights on Southfield from Pinecrest to Riopelle, with 60 light poles affected and 66 not affected. The new poles would replace the ones currently on the outer edge of the road and would be installed in the center of the median, with many bearing two lights instead of one.