Sanchez questions DOT on lighting options mounted on elevated rail structures

Yes, I do.

So if you look around the world, if you go to Santiago, Santo Domingo, if you go to Puerto Rico, Chicago, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Miami,

The list goes on.

Seoul, Dubai.

All of these places around the world have lights specifically on their train rail system.

I'm curious to know if there is an opportunity that doesn't include lighting on actual the street light poles, but on the elevated rail itself.

And what is preventing anyone from adding lights to that elevated rail itself?

We typically don't because there are vibration issues.

There's also they have their own power on the train lines that we'd have to contend with.

So there may be instances where we've done it, but it's not the typical practice.

Oh, it can be challenging.

It's, you know, for us, it's typically easier because we own and operate the streets and we have usually have some form of existing light poles there that we can add on to.

So if, for instance, adding a pole on the back of an existing light pole is adding an arm on an existing light pole is an option that that's typically easier to do.

So is it accurate to say that the street lighting on rails would be more of a state issue than it is a city issue because of the control of the elevated subways?

We would certainly have to work with them in those instances because they do own the infrastructure.

So in those scenarios, we'd have to coordinate definitely with New York City Transit.

Has there been any assessment of using the power that already exists on the trains to illuminate the underneath?

I mean, the way that I envision Councilmember Henry's, Thomas Henry's bill is, I mean, we have lights that you can literally just stick onto a wall with batteries.

Then that was when I was a kid.

And so seeing the way that technology has.

Vastly improved now.

I'm curious to know if there are green ways and

green infrastructure ways that we can be adding light that uses the renewable electricity that already exists on these train tracks to help illuminate underneath.

Is there been any ability to study that or any discussions with either state partners or other city partners about doing something in that way?

Have you been able to envision this legislation in that way at all?

I'm not aware that that has been studied, so we'd have to check and see if that's something that's been looked at before.

Okay.

Thank you.

All right.