4.LIGHTING IMPROVEMENT

- EGLINTON AVENUE WEST/KEELE STREET AREA

WARD 27, YORK-HUMBER.

 Councillor Frances Nunziata, Ward 27, York-Humber

(April 14, 1998)

Would you kindly place the following item on the agenda at the next available meeting of the York Community Council.

Thank you.

Rick Nytoko, Planning Foreman, Toronto Hydro-Electric Commission

(April 9, 1998)

Eglinton Avenue West

In response to your request about the feasibility of installing lighting on both sides of Eglinton Avenue West from Bicknell Avenue to Richardson Avenue, I submit the following:

 *the existing lighting is well above the 22 lux level recommended for a major arterial road;

*any improvement requires council approval for required funding;

*adding additional illumination would increase operating costs as well as impairing motorists= visual acuity when entering and exiting the area;

*recommend replacing fourteen existing 400 watt luminaires with 200 watt luminaires;

*install thirteen additional 200 watt luminaires and six poles;

*upgrade the underground street lighting system between Bicknell Avenue and Keele Street.

Estimated cost is $35,000.

 Lane Lighting

The only laneway in the immediate area that is not illuminated is located immediately south of Eglinton Avenue West and runs east and west from Yarrow Road to a dead end.

* recommend installing one pole and one luminaire in each section of laneway.

Estimated cost is $3,500.00.

Should you have further enquiries, please call me at (416) 652-4016.