Pittsburgh Flips the Switch on First Wave of New LED Streetlights

'Let there be light': Pittsburgh set to install tens of thousands of new streetlights

A new streetlight lit up a quiet intersection in Manchester on the city’s North Side for the first time this week, commemorating the launch of a...

Pittsburgh flips the switch on first wave of new LED streetlights

Pittsburgh begins its $15 million replacement of all 35,000-plus streetlights around town over the next two years.

'The right light:' Pittsburgh begins installing LED streetlights - Pittsburgh Union Progress

With the flip of a switch Tuesday evening, Pittsburgh officials changed the view on one block of the Manchester neighborhood. At the end of a news conference on Pennsylvania Avenue, Mayor Ed Gainey called for the city’s new LED streetlights to be activated between Chateau and Fulton streets. The new bright lights were a visible contrast to the old high-pressure sodium fixtures in the next block, where not all of them came on at the same time and…