City of Colorado Springs turned off a third of its Streetlights

[Fire11]

#19) In a desperate attempt to save cash, the city of Colorado Springs turned off a third of its streetlights and put its police helicopters up for auction.

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/24-signs-that-all-of-america-is-becoming-just-like-detroit-a-rotting-post-industrial-post-apocalyptic-wasteland

[acptulsa]

Yawn. What city hasn't been turning off street lights? Mine has.

[specsaregood]

Yawn. What city hasn't been turning off street lights? Mine has.

Better than my area, where they put hundreds of thousands into overpriced solar power systems for each effing light pole.

[Vessol]

If only they had a Colorado Springs Central Bank. Then they could just print money to pay their bills and never have to worry about debt!

[Kludge]

Better than my area, where they put hundreds of thousands into overpriced solar power systems for each effing light pole.
I noticed they switched to LED lights here this winter. It was very obvious when it snowed. :/

Seems very odd to me they've only replaced the traffic lights - so far.