This project provides for the evaluation and enhancement of streetlighting within and around central business districts (CBD) and town centers, where current lighting does not meet minimum Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA) standards. This project will fill in streetlighting, install standardized streetlighting types that include custom pole designs and globes (glass housing for luminaire) and replace sodium vapor lamps with light-emitting diode (LED) luminaires.

This project is needed to provide visibility and safety improvements in areas where there is a high concentration of pedestrians, bicyclists and vehicles. Streetlighting to promote pedestrian safety is one of the items requested each year by the County's Citizen Advisory Boards (CAB).

Streetlighting in CBDs and town centers will also support the Montgomery County Planning Board priorities for Countywide pedestrian safety improvements and area specific lighting enhancements. Completed projects include: Long Branch (commercial area) - completed in FY10; Wheaton CBD - completed in FY11; Langley Park - completed in FY12; Odenthal Avenue - completed in FY13; Damascus Town Center - completed in FY14; Glenmont Metro Area - completed in FY15; Olney Town Center - completed in FY17; Bethesda CBD was completed in FY24. This project will help the County achieve its Vision Zero goals to reduce deaths and serious injuries on County roadways to zero by 2030.

Expenditures will continue indefinitely.

Potomac Electric Power Company, Baltimore Gas and Electric Company, Potomac Edison, Montgomery County Police Department, community associations, Urban Districts, Citizens Advisory Boards, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission