[Br0nxer]

to keep the street lights on. . what a sh1thole

It could be lights out for much of the Motor City.
Detroit officials say an economic squeeze and population loss is forcing them to permanently turn off almost half of its streetlights in some vacant and dwindling areas — a drastic step other cash-strapped cities across the United States have employed.
“You have to identify those neighborhoods where you want to concentrate your population,” Chris Brown, Detroit’s chief operating officer, told Bloomberg News. “We’re not going to light distressed areas like we light other areas.”
As it turns out, about 40% of the city’s 88,000 street lamps are already broken, Bloomberg News reported Thursday.
As part of Mayor Dave Bing’s proposal, an authority would be created to borrow $160 million to remove the streetlights and upgrade the remaining 46,000, with the city then contracting out maintenance of the system, Bloomberg News said.
Officials believe the city would ultimately save about $10 million a year from the move.
Other municipalities have killed the lights in recent years: Colorado Springs shut off almost 10,000 of its streetlights in 2010 to save more than $1.2 million.
A year earlier, Santa Rosa, Calif., removed 6,000 streetlights and put another 3,000 on a timer to save about $400,000 annually.
In Detroit, city officials desperately want to get out of the lighting business. The troubled Public Lighting Department is responsible for the poles and wires that run through Motown.
ABC affiliate WXYZ reported last year that poor management, ineffective maintenance and no capital investment has compounded the aging power system’s problems.
Coming up with cash to restore it has been impossible, officials contend — the city currently has a $200 million budget deficit.
Meanwhile, blackouts have been a nagging issue, according to the Detroit Free Press, with repairs costing taxpayers millions of dollars a year.
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is reportedly in support of Mayor Bing’s plan, which requires state legislative approval.
Residents of the city are hoping for a quick fix.
“In the dark, criminals are comfortable,” business owner Jamahl Makled told Bloomberg News. “It’s not good for the economy and the safety of the residents.”


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[Delicious]

Your tax dollars at work.... Bailing out degenerate bankers, occupying 3rd world countries for oil reserves, and for Tyrone bigguns 8 kids with 7 baby mamma's. Wave that Chinease made american flag, and keep voting the same corporate bought prostitutes to congress while you bleet right wing this and liberal that on your way to slaughter. You mindless unthinking American morons.

[Br0nxer]

Your tax dollars at work.... Bailing out degenerate bankers, occupying 3rd world countries for oil reserves, and for Tyrone bigguns 8 kids with 7 baby mamma's. Wave that Chinease made american flag, and keep voting the same corporate bought prostitutes to congress while you bleet right wing this and liberal that on your way to slaughter. You mindless unthinking American morons.

[DudleyDawson]

Shithole is right. Place is a dump.

[Smoke]

Shithole is right. Place is a dump.

Then why do you live there?