The Public Lighting Authority announced this week they expect Detroit neighborhoods to be shining bright in 2015, a year earlier than planned.
That's assuming everything goes well two test zones the PLA is currently lighting up, of course. Workers began installing lights in one east-side and test area one west-side test area this week and are expected to finish by April.
The $160-million project would turn on some of the forty-ish percent of Detroit's street lights that were dark last year.
The accelerated timeline only applies to residential streets -- PLA director Odis Jones tells the Free Press that street lights on main roads will be turned by 2016, as originally planned.
Want to know when your neighborhood gets to light up? The Free Press has a map.
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