In order to further enhance the city's lighting effect and make it safer for citizens to travel at night, since this year, the Fuyang District Urban Management Bureau of Hangzhou has carried out "dark removal and brightening" in 31 old open communities, many parks and green spaces, and roads, transforming a total of 2,300 traditional light source lighting facilities such as street lights and garden lights protect the safe and convenient urban "nightlife".

"Brighten up" old communities

The old open-plan communities have been under construction for a long time, and most of them are installed with traditional street light sources such as high-pressure sodium lamps and metal halide lamps. The current brightness cannot meet the needs, and there are problems of high energy consumption and heavy pollution. In this regard, the urban management department worked together to formulate a transformation plan in a timely manner, replacing the traditional light source with 50W LED lamps, which significantly improved the lighting effect of the community, made residents more comfortable during night activities, safer when traveling, and made subsequent maintenance easier.

The Provincial Highway 23 (Fuyang-Xindeng) section is an important commuter road, but the street lights on both sides have insufficient power and low brightness due to the long installation time. In response to this situation, the urban management department organized lighting maintenance workers to uniformly update 924 sets of street lamps and light pole cables on the road and replaced them with LED lamps, which greatly improved the illumination. In addition, street lights on main roads such as Jinyuan Road have also been replaced, and floodlights have been added near key areas such as passenger terminals to facilitate citizens' travel at night.

At the same time, the courtyard lights in park green spaces such as Dongwu Park, Forest Park, and the landscape green space along Jiangbin West Avenue were upgraded. Dongwu Park was used as a pilot project to add solar photovoltaic street lights to the fitness area to create better lighting effects and landscape atmosphere.