Do they really need a two headed pole on a residential street?

I guess they though so.

I would have put one arm at 45 degrees across the intersection. That's what is normally done.

I would of likely done that too, but upped the wattage to 100 or 150 watts. Notice the pole that was installed today is ALREADY LEANING!

They never heard of a level or did they backfill improperly?

I don't know why contractors seem to have issues doing things right, the city just hires the cheapest contractor that bids.

Someone should tell the city there's a reason they're cheaper , same thing with those cheap utilities that use cheapo lamps and lumes that start cycling after a few months.

Yeah, I wish they would hire a good contractor even if it cost a bit more.

Ask them, why they are doing it!

The lights are being replaced because the wiring and many of the poles (and the neighbourhood) are about 50 years old, so there have been some underground wire failures recently, plus they say the Twistpaks "Don't meet the city of Brampton's lighting standards and blah - blah - blah". Really the upgrades are not necessary, the roads they have done already are lit almost as well as many arterial roads which is rather outrageous. They won't even install new Twistpaks since they are no longer approved by the city and they say they don't light the road well enough (And they light these small streets fine.)

A lot of arterials here don't even use double arm streetlights on the corners.

Yeah I don't know who would of though this was necessary.

Maybe the same people who put in ped signals in places with no sidewalks.

They do that here to. They'll put up a ped signal at an intersection with a traffic light in the countryside and there won't even be a sidewalk.

Here's a good one and this one is just weird.

That second one is just funny!

wow that's soooo funny.

Update: These poles still don't have fixtures, however poles that went up on other streets have OVHs. Looks like we are now going FCO

The OVH cycle just as bad as the OVZ and OVX. OVH/G look cool with drop lenses though I've never seen one with an actual Cooper plastic lens. Not even a picture of one with a cooper lens.

Bleh more FCO lights.