Mass. town will charge to keep street lights on

NECN
July 7, 2010

(NECN: Scot Yount, Concord, Mass.) – A plan in the works to save money in Concord, Massachusetts. Residents can keep their lights on, but they’ll have to pay a monthly fee. It’s become a hot topic in the town of 17,000.

David Ropeik: “Government can’t afford now the basic kinds of things that we thought government basically did.”

In historic Concord, Massachusetts-the lights, are going out.

David Ropeik: “It is pretty strange, we got the reverse 911 call that is usually there if a burglar loose in your neighborhood that says we are taking down your infrastructure.”

In fact, the town is taking down hundreds of street lights mostly in residential neighborhoods to save money on electricity. David Ropeik says the light is barely bright enough to walk his dogs as it is.

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