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
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.