This pole and lights have been hit or knocked down atleast 3 or 4 times in the last 5 years. Its seen brand new OVX's a few times too. This little area seems to be a hot spot to median knockovers due to the curve in part of the road.
Another edit: 8+ times poles and even pylons have been knocked here
Maybe they get really busy down there? I figure that the utilities know when a pole gets knocked down because they are usually called out anyways. Like right now they have atleast 3 aluminum pole knockdowns awaiting to be replaced that I can name. Check out this one here that actually took nearly 2 years to take care of! It came down in the beginning of 2015 and didnt get replaced until either October or November 2016.
The actual pole has never fallen, but when hit the arms fall off. There are lots of bumper marks on the pole.
It was in fact already hit a record 3 times in 2017 so far. Probably hit 6 times total. They've just slapped on new arms and OVX's each time.
LOL that's funny. Did the arms completely fall off or did the arms fail at the arm/mounting plate weld? Around here when aluminum NGrid poles are hit just right, the truss arm will fall off because the weld joining the arm and mounting plate fails. That's how I got my 10ft aluminum truss arm. I need to weld aluminum brackets on it so it can be installed.
Seems like that's the weak spot for tapered arms, as they're otherwise very strong. Aluminum welding is very tricky from what I've heard, since the weld compound melts at a very close temperature to the aluminum being welded together.
UPDATE: Went by here and the pole has no arms again (no mount plates left either). Also, a whole roll of electrical tape was wrapped around the entire hand hole lol.
UPDATE: Hazard fencing arouud was bowled down.
UPDATE 2: A month ago a concrete base was poured as a replacement and the wood jig for the bolts and pylon left on top .
UPDATE 3: Today pylon is across the road, the wood jig is crushed, conduit pipe protruding above the concrete looks destroyed, yet to see if bolts still good!
I don't know how this hasn't even made the brampton guardian! The number of accidents here must be huge! They need to put some reflectors in the median and move the streetlights to the side!
I find it interesting they use poured foundations for light poles up there. Here everything is precast, even most parking lots use them. They come with the anchor bolts and conduit already installed so you just drop the foundation in the hole, connect your PVC conduit to the pre-installed PVC sticking out the sides near the bottom, and then once the dirt around the foundation is compacted down install your pole and you're done. They use a small crane truck to lower the foundation into the ground.
Since they were installing a new foundation, IMO they should have set the pole back from the road and used a guardrail in front of it so the next moron that wrecks their car will eat the guardrail and not the light pole.
UPDATE: a neighbour aluminum pole was bowled down and the same day at night they replaced it with a shorter pole sporting AEL125 FCOs. They interrupted the sequence! Today I noticed in the same run they also mounted the same thing to the new poured base here! Also worth noting they used super thin poles.
I give it a month before this pole is on the ground, just a slight clipping will likely knock it vs the previous concrete pole that survived 9 lives Also worth noting it's been 10 years maintenance only used AEL115/OVX, and these are first spot replacements with FCO.
This has got to be for sure the most deadly stretch of road in the city hands down! Its looking like they are trying to find new solutions and obviously nothing seems to be working lol. I gotta go see this myself this week!
Only logic I see is thinking a smaller pole is less harmful if it falls into oncoming traffic? Less expensive? Ask me and I say concrete poles were the safest because they pervented collateral damage by holding back the drivers causing the impacts
UPDATE: the new aluminum pole is gone and a pylon caps the base.
The same neighbour pole installed with this one remains, and is hella glary with 400WHPS FCO mounted super low.
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This pole and lights have been hit or knocked down atleast 3 or 4 times in the last 5 years. Its seen brand new OVX's a few times too. This little area seems to be a hot spot to median knockovers due to the curve in part of the road.
Another edit: 8+ times poles and even pylons have been knocked here
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[Gone] The Abused Pole
This pole and lights have been hit or knocked down atleast 3 or 4 times in the last 5 years. Its seen brand new OVX's a few times too. This little area seems to be a hot spot to median knockovers due to the curve in part of the road.
Another edit: 8+ times poles and even pylons have been knocked here
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It was in fact already hit a record 3 times in 2017 so far. Probably hit 6 times total. They've just slapped on new arms and OVX's each time.
UPDATE 2: A month ago a concrete base was poured as a replacement and the wood jig for the bolts and pylon left on top .
UPDATE 3: Today pylon is across the road, the wood jig is crushed, conduit pipe protruding above the concrete looks destroyed, yet to see if bolts still good!
Since they were installing a new foundation, IMO they should have set the pole back from the road and used a guardrail in front of it so the next moron that wrecks their car will eat the guardrail and not the light pole.
I give it a month before this pole is on the ground, just a slight clipping will likely knock it vs the previous concrete pole that survived 9 lives
The same neighbour pole installed with this one remains, and is hella glary with 400WHPS FCO mounted super low.