Not well known but an excellent golf-destination city.
Are the removing the whole structure or just the bulbs?
They will do anything to make life miserable for the those that pay while at the same time doing nothing to inconvenience those on the dole.
To think the Tesla experiments were conducted there. Just saying...
And how many union city/state employee jobs are they cutting? Oh, right...those people are far too IMPORTANT!
1970s all over again. Reminds me of my childhood. I can’t wait to see this happen in NYC where whole sections of Central Park were fenced closed and filled with junk. Yippee.
I bet the spacing of the light posts and the lumen rating of each light bulb were selected based on the Colorado State Building Code... I wonder how long it will be before they are putting the bulbs back in the lamp posts?
This is a very old game. I’ve worked in the public sector (education, health) and I know that huge dollars could be saved and nobody would notice, which is why they don’t get saved. The standard response to budget cuts is to cut back on the things that people will notice, in an effort to produce a backlash.
"You can cry about the fiscal situation ... or you can take it as an opportunity to change, reinvent yourself and innovate and that's what were going to do in Colorado Springs," City Councilman Sean Paige said...."We put it on the ballot last fall, and they said 'no,' " said Paige, a Republican. "They declined to write the city a blank check, and they said, 'City, tighten your belts. We're tightening ours. You need to do the same.'
Refreshing POV.
Most of the flunky bureaucrats in local government are there to steal taxpayer money and process the cash, after skimming off a few million for salary, benefits, graft and embezzlement.
“The city’s garbage collection, zoo and philharmonic are all privately funded.”
So why are city crews removing trash cans from parks? Even if garbage collection wasn’t private, the efforts needing to go into litter collection would not be offset from removing trash cans... They’ve already bought the cans, removing them won’t do anything!
Given human nature, I think this is a distinctly BAD idea. The parks will look like garbage dumps.
Evenings or weekends? Our service went to zero.
If you're waiting for the next bus... you have a very long wait. If you should live so long.
B-b-b-b-b-ut Think About Going Green! Saving Energy! Reducing CO2 Emissions!!
They should go Totally Green and remove every lamp in the city!!!!!
Street lights are a huge waste of money and energy....
Good for Colorado....
They should let the citizens of this city go through the budget items and ax the ones they think are unnecessary, not what the government wants to cut.
Which will encourage littering. Duh!
I wonder if they considered trying to get volunteers to go empty the trash cans once a week or so?
send trash back to mexico!