Ottawa street lights & signals 311 requests

How many 311 requests in the street lights & signals category residents of Ottawa have filed since January 2025.

Current release

Data through April 12, 2026

Data from January 2025 through April 12, 2026

Open data

Total Requests

5.5K

in the street lights & signals category

Latest Month

105

April 2026

Share of total

1.2%

of all Ottawa 311 requests

Median Resolution

10.0d

half of requests close faster

Monthly street lights & signals requests

How many street lights & signals 311 requests Ottawa residents file each month.

How this category is extracted

What counts as street lights & signals: Broken street lights, outages, damaged signs, and malfunctioning traffic signals or pedestrian crossings.

In Ottawa’s raw 311 feed, the following 1 service_type roll into street lights & signals:

  • Roads and Transportation

To reproduce these counts against the raw feed

SELECT count(*)
FROM <ottawa_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
  'Roads and Transportation'
)

Analyst tip: Austin splits street lights ('AE Street Light Issue - Address') from traffic signals ('TPW - Traffic Signal - Maintenance') and signs ('TPW - Traffic Sign Maintenance'). Calgary uses the 'Roads -' prefix for all three. Oakland uses the terse 'ELECTRICAL' and 'TRAFFIC_ENGIN' abbreviations.

See how street lights & signals is defined for every tracked city →

Source & provenance

Counts on this page are derived from Ottawa’s official open 311 data feed, covering January 2025 through April 12, 2026. Category assignment uses a hand-curated mapping from the city’s raw service types to a normalized cross-city category. View the underlying dataset at open.ottawa.ca.

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