Detroit to shut off half its street lights due to budget woes

[Terminator X]

You have to identify those neighborhoods where you want to concentrate your population,” said Chris Brown, Detroit’s chief operating officer. Even as they cut hundreds of millions of dollars in support to cities and schools in the 2012 budget, Michigan lawmakers saw fit to dole out $1.7 billion in corporate tax breaks.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/05/25/490394/detroit-streetlights-budget/
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-24/half-of-detroit-s-streetlights-may-go-out-as-city-shrinks.html

[Drosophila]

I don't live in Detroit, but here in NJ most of the streetlights are inefficient and not economical at all. They might be doing themselves a favor.

[wunks]

I don't live in Detroit, but here in NJ most of the streetlights are inefficient and not economical at all. They might be doing themselves a favor.I don't see how people who live in detroit could possibly benefit from the streetlights being shut off....

[Drosophila]

I don't see how people who live in detroit could possibly benefit from the streetlights being shut off....

A lot of lighting is wasteful and unnecessary. I'm not saying that's the case in Detroit, but it could be.

[Pretty Flaco]

A lot of lighting is wasteful and unnecessary. I'm not saying that's the case in Detroit, but it could be.

i think hes saying that detroit isn't known for being a very safe city and that turning off a large portion of the lights (which i can almost guarantee wont be shut off in the nicer districts) certainly wont help with crime.

[wunks]

A lot of lighting is wasteful and unnecessary. I'm not saying that's the case in Detroit, but it could be.and getting rid of inefficient lighting altogether would better the lives of the residents of detroit how?

[Drosophila]

i think hes saying that detroit isn't known for being a very safe city and that turning off a large portion of the lights (which i can almost guarantee wont be shut off in the nicer districts) certainly wont help with crime.

I know of a case where inefficient lighting was used to aid a burglary, but you could be right. Again, I don't live in Detroit.

[wunks]

I know of a case where inefficient lighting was used to aid a burglary, but you could be right. Again, I don't live in Detroit.I'm guessing burglars thrive when the streetlights are out.

[Os Cangaceiros]

i think hes saying that detroit isn't known for being a very safe city and that turning off a large portion of the lights (which i can almost guarantee wont be shut off in the nicer districts) certainly wont help with crime.

That is an impression that many people have, but I'm not sure how accurate it actually is. There was another major city that turned off a good percentage of it's street lights for the same budgetary reasons (I want to say Rockford Illinois, but I could be wrong), and crime wasn't really affected at all.

[wunks]

regardless, it sucks for the people living there.

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

I don't live in Detroit, but here in NJ most of the streetlights are inefficient and not economical at all. They might be doing themselves a favor.

What does "inefficient" and "not economical" mean, and since when is "economical" a concern for anyone but the city government looking to rub the working class in vomit called "austerity" anyway? Street lightning is quite good at reducing traffic accident and it's a wonder the New Jersey Turnpike isn't illuminated throughout.

[X5N]

Detroit: The closest thing America has to a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

[Igor]

Detroit: The closest thing America has to a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

since when have apocalyptic wastelands had robotic police forces :confused:

[Workers-Control-Over-Prod]

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/05/25/490394/detroit-streetlights-budget/
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-24/half-of-detroit-s-streetlights-may-go-out-as-city-shrinks.html


Good reporting comrade.

[Luc]

since when have apocalyptic wastelands had robotic police forces :confused:

...

what?

http://static.nme.com/images/gallery/RobocopGb110311.jpg

...?!

[o well this is ok I guess]

Damn
I feel like Detroit is now the coolest place in America
It's like Pripyat now but with less radiation