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Friday, November 04, 2011

Unable To Pay Bill, Detroit Suburb Turns Off Lights

'When Chrysler moved out, things started to happen,' says Highland Park councilman

HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. — As the sun dips below the rooftops each evening, parts of this Detroit enclave turn to pitch black, the only illumination coming from a few streetlights at the end of the block or from glowing yellow yard globes.

It wasn't always this way. But when the debt-ridden community could no longer afford its monthly electric bill, elected officials not only turned off 1,000 streetlights. They had them ripped out — bulbs, poles and all. Now nightfall cloaks most neighborhoods in inky darkness.

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4 comments:

  1. CerealposterNovember 4, 2011 at 11:43 AM

    I would rather have a colonoscopy than ever visit a Detroit suburb,with or without streetlights.

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  2. AnonymousNovember 4, 2011 at 12:39 PM

    The future of Salisbury if Ireton and his Democrat progressive commies get their way.

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  3. AnonymousNovember 4, 2011 at 12:49 PM

    Hence the term "The dark side of town"

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  4. AnonymousNovember 5, 2011 at 8:05 AM

    SHA is doing the same, over the last week they have begun a project that removes 1/3 of the light on the US-50 bridge over the Nanticoke River in Vienna.

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