Cupertino Streets get Brighter and Safer

Published on August 27, 2025

Cupertino streets are brighter and safer with the projects to replace streetlight poles and the City Lighting LED Improvements project. Replacing worn out poles enhances public safety by averting potential failures, and LED lights deliver a more luminous and directed light while conserving energy and reducing light pollution.

Between 2018 and 2024, 396 fluted poles were replaced, and now all fluted poles are replaced. The current focus is to replace steel streetlight poles with galvanized Type 15 poles, which are more stable and have less chance of corrosion. In 2024, 41 steel poles were replaced with Type 15 poles, and another 76 steel poles are in the process of being replaced in 2025-2026. The City Lighting LED Improvements project will upgrade over 2,000 streetlights to LED fixtures. This project is currently underway and scheduled to be complete by Fall 2025.

See the completed and upcoming improvements for streetlighting infrastructure with the Streetlight Improvements Story Map—a comprehensive visual representation to track street light upgrades: gis.cupertino.org/webmap/streetlight/