Light Plan Mushrooms on Pine Avenue (Analysis)
By Frank., Jr. Parlato
- Release Date: 2011-01-18
- Genre: Reference
Description
It started out small and simple. But the originally discussed plan to merely add lighting in front of the famed and popular Italian restaurant The Como, on the 2200 block of Pine Avenue, where a number of nighttime accidents occurred, has mushroomed into a full-blown plan by Mayor Paul Dyster to replace 146 fixtures on 73 lightpoles along Pine Avenue from Portage Road to Hyde Park. Dyster's plan is moving toward presentation by the mayor to the Council, based on a lighting study being done by VBC Lighting Inc. of Buffalo, and is a plan to spend what appears to be about $1.57 million--not counting installation--for new lights and fixtures. The mayor apparently selected VBC Lighting to do the work and has not expressed interest in getting other bids.
