KCAL News investigative reporter David Goldstein finds serious safety problems on Los Angeles freeways.
Some Los Angeles freeways are extra dark, even blacked out at night as Caltrans confirms 40% of the 34,000 freeway lights in the county don't work because of vandalism.
KCAL News investigative reporter David Goldstein found some of the thousands of lights and cameras on L.A.'s freeways that aren't working and discovered electrical boxes on the sides of freeways vandalized, ripped open, and mangled.Officials say thieves steal the copper wiring to sell as scrap metal. They also steal the fiber optic cables that control freeway message signs and Caltrans traffic cameras.
Caltrans responded that they see an increase in vandalism when the prices for precious metals are up, which they are now. The agency has started to install security doors with six inches of concrete on the freeway boxes – but it appears even those have been vandalized. They are also putting in fencing and steel doors at their communications hubs to hopefully stop the vandals.
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