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New York Times: The Lights are On in Detroit: With 65,000 new streetlights, the city sends a message: It’s OK to come out after dark

Lighting Up Detroit: One of Detroit’s most overlooked features is bringing residents peace of mind and a renewed sense of hope in the city’s revival—its streetlights

The Public Lighting Authority (PLA) is a state-created authority whose mission is to improve, modernize and maintain all street lights in the City of Detroit with brighter, more reliable, more energy efficient lights. The new lights in neighborhoods are 150-watt equivalent LED lights, twice as bright as the 75-watt equivalent High Pressure Sodium Lights that were the standard under the old system. The LED lights are also much more energy efficient than the High Pressure Sodium lights.

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