Detroit plans to darken city lights to save money

[MikelArteta]

World News: Detroit plans to darken street lights to tighten up city - thestar.com

 

[newarkhiphop]

As it is, 40 per cent of the 88,000 street lights are broken and the city, whose finances are to be overseen by an appointed board, can’t afford to fix them.

so almost half there lights already dont work?

smh aint the crime rate crazy already?

 

[SonofaGod]

at a point the money becomes vastly more important than the murder rate huh.

 

[ogc163]

smfh

 

[Grand Eeezus Maxwell]

Why is this world news?

 

[Towlie]

The lights already be out, so this isn't news

 

[-InFeRnO-]

detroit is status

 

[Cat piss martini]

detroit is 1 job loss away from the humongus coming
through for all of the gas

 

[Colilluminati]

Pathetic.

 

[wire28]

The lights already be out, so this isn't news

true

they building up midtown and downtown, the parts that really need focus is residential detroit. and its gonna take a while to fix all that

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

i wonder if all the money the gov spent on killing people in the middle east could be put to better use here at home....

 

[Towlie]

true

they building up midtown and downtown, the parts that really need focus is residential detroit. and its gonna take a while to fix all that

yea, start with the eastside

then prolly linwood/dexter

and show brightmoor some love

 

[cleanface coney]

yea thats true midtown and downtown are booming while the residential is messed up

i think that its gonna take more of an influx of homeowners to really make a differece in the residentials

 

[killacal]

Detroit somehow gets more grimey

 

[dtownreppin214]

i wonder if all the money the gov spent on killing people in the middle east could be put to better use here at home....

United States has wasted or misspent between US $31 billion and $60 billion contracting for services in Iraq and Afghanistan.