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Street lights purchased for Springwood Avenue will likely arrive in the city in early February, city engineer Joe Cunha said, and workers will install them soon after.

The new lights on Springwood Avenue [street pictured above] will have a Victorian look. The city has bought about 80 of them.

City resident Werner Baumgartner suggested the city switch those lights with the modern-looking lights recently installed in the waterfront area [pictured at right].

“Think of the context these [new Victorian-style] lights are going to be in,” Baumgartner said. “You have a beach front with old architecture. You’ve got the new Springwood Center, which evokes the future. It seems to be inconsistent. Take the black pseudo-Victorian ones and put them where they belong, next to the 1920s architecture.”

Some city council members agreed, but Cunha said today several steps would be involved in swapping the lights, and the city’s electrician is on a tight schedule with Hurricane Sandy repairs. Unless a switch is approved by the council and possibly the planning or zoning board, the black Victorian-style lights will likely be installed on Springwood Avenue, Cunha said.

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[CORRECTION: A previous version of this article erroneously stated that Baumgartner was referring to grey cobra-head lights instead of the modern-looking lights pictured.]

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