AFTER already having to reckon with metal thieves damaging its streetlights in their search for the copper in some cables, City Hall now has to deal with mentally unstable vagrants vandalising these amenities.
City Hall is keeping an eye on the public lighting at a section of the Lintas-Kolombong Ring Road to minimise the traffic hazards at night, while similar concerns have prompted Sabah Electricity Sdn Bhd (SESB) to take down the unwanted power poles along a Kinarut stretch.
The agency aimed to safeguard motorists – especially the elderly – who may have poor night vision, while the company wanted to pre-empt potential accidents which could happen if any leaning poles toppled onto vehicles moving to and from a village near the town
Published on: Saturday, July 17, 2021
By: Sidney Skinner
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The lights near the turn-off from Jalan Kolam onto Jalan Kebajikan are operating as they should.
City Hall has played down an incident where the streetlights along a section of the Kolombong-Lintas Ring Road were found to be operational on a recent weekday, saying that this was not an instance of electricity-wastage.
A spokesman for the agency’s Engineering Department clarified that maintenance work was being carried out on the lights.
“They were deliberately switched on so that our contractor could identify which of them had malfunctioned,” he said.
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He was responding to a complaint about the pointless use of electricity.