Boston Plans To Replace Historic Gas Lamps With LED Lights

Boston is planning to replace the old gas-burning streetlamps with LEDs. The city looks to ditch all 2800 gas lamps — from Beacon Hill to the Back Bay to Charlestown — because they cost nearly a million bucks to fuel and spew the greenhouse gasses of more than a thousand cars.

'Our plan is to replace all of the gas lights in Boston with LEDs,' says Jascha Franklin-Hodge, Boston’s Chief of Streets. 'We are in a climate crisis and we need to be working in every way we can to reduce our greenhouse gasses.'

The LED’s also cost roughly 90 percent less to run — with less maintenance.