Street Lights

The Region maintains and operates approximately 6,500 street lights some of which are owned by the Ministry of Transportation, 407 ETR and the Town of Newmarket.

Typically the Region owns and maintains all intersection lighting on the Regional road network, which is interspersed with municipal lighting. Confusion arises when there are outages as to who controls the lighting.

In the spring of 2006 all Region owned and/or maintained street lighting were tagged and identified by GPS. The poles are tagged with a 3.5" x 12" high intensity engineer grade, reflective blue on silver, horizontal mounting, with the York Region logo on it. This was to identify the Region owned and/or maintained street lights from the municipally owned street lights.

Click here to view York Regional map of traffic control signals and street lights that the Region owns and/or maintains. When map has loaded, please zoom into your area and click on street light layer located in the bottom left hand side.

If you would like to report a street light outage, please contact the Region of York Transportation Dispatch at 905-830-4444 ext. 5200 or toll free at 1-877-464-9675 ext. 5200. Please provide the tag identification number and the nearest intersection.

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If you need additional information, or have comments and concerns, please submit them by using our online Traffic Contact Form