Be on the look out: Mugging between Forest & Trumbull

[illwill]

http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article...the-end-of-the

I'm just happy to know that Cockrel reached back to the victim.

[jt1]

From the article, "Mayor Dave Bing said in August that under the new authority, the number of working streetlights would go from about 35,000 currently to about 45,000 in about five years."

That is unacceptably slow. It averages to 5.48 lights coming on per day. If you factor in a 48 week/5 day a week schedule it is still only averages 8.33 lights per day. When the bonds are approved why the hell should it take 5 years to get these up and running.

It's akin to telling a starving person you'll have dinner ready for them in two weeks, long after they are dead.

Pathetic.

[MizMotown]

Since they closed W. Grand Blvd. exit to Midtown area I've been exiting at Warren from 94-E.

At 6:30am it is PITCH dark. I can't recall seeing any working street lights.

I shudder when I see folks standing in the dark waiting for the bus. Between potential criminals and packs of pitbulls that may cross a path in the darkness... seriously shameful...

[313WX]

From the article, "Mayor Dave Bing said in August that under the new authority, the number of working streetlights would go from about 35,000 currently to about 45,000 in about five years."

That is unacceptably slow. It averages to 5.48 lights coming on per day. If you factor in a 48 week/5 day a week schedule it is still only averages 8.33 lights per day. When the bonds are approved why the hell should it take 5 years to get these up and running.

It's akin to telling a starving person you'll have dinner ready for them in two weeks, long after they are dead.

Pathetic.

Also keep in mind that the plan only lights up to 46,000 lights.

So what that tells me is most of the lights that are out now will remain out, in contrast to much of the rhetoric going around about the lighting authority.

Yet the media refuses to share this little fact with the citizens of Detroit.

Ridiculous. And yet these loons must remain in office for another year.