ShonTron
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I'm fond of Toronto's distinctive street light with the curved bracket. They're the ones that emit white light, but are limited to the old city of Toronto. Better design is possible and preferable in prominent places, but as a "generic" design to install on ordinary streets, it's quite elegant. In fact, these street lights have even been used in prominent streetscape overhauls like St. George Street through the U of T campus. They look fine, but I would still advocate for a more sophisticated design for such ambitious projects.
New LED lighting units have been installed on these distinctive brackets as an experiment on a few streets, but don't seem to suit the curved bracket design as well as the round metal halide unit presently used. It should be a round lighting unit. Windsor has the distinctive brackets as well, but they installed sodium-vapour lights on them. Like our experimental LED lights, they don't seem to compliment the curved look of the bracket very well.
Windsor certainly has a lot of those old brackets retrofitted with cobra-heads. There's still a few in Brampton in the B and C Sections of Bramalea, though they look a little different, actually much like the ones in Etobicoke from the late 1950s/1960s. The old Town of Brampton had a miniature version (same as the old Yonge subway poles) that disappeared except for one in an alleyway. A few retrofitted brackets remain like on Elizabeth Street.
I resurrected the month-old thought as I was biking in the Huronia region a week-and-a-half ago, I found a pure acorn-and-bracket in Midland.