sign of the times ahead.
To: Watchdog85
Highland Park is not a suburb of Detroit...Detroit surrounds it. Like Hamtramck /sp, its not a suburb either. Use to be a total polish neighborhood..so clean you could eat off the streets..not any more. also surrounded by Detroit.
To: Watchdog85
Urban becomes rural, but, with a higher population density so it's not really rural...more like a densely populated Appalachia. That should attract businesses.
3 posted on
11/03/2011 10:47:07 PM PDT by
crazyhorse691
(Obama is just the symptom of what is destroying the U.S.)
To: Watchdog85
Highland Park = Detroit without the downtown.
4 posted on
11/03/2011 10:51:32 PM PDT by
Darren McCarty
(Anybody but Romney or Obama)
To: Watchdog85
I hate to be dense, but why would they go to the expense of taking out the light poles - so they can’t be sued for one falling, or the meltdown value of the metal?
Now, IF the area ever gets rejuvenated (um, yeah), they’ll have to redo the infrastructure to even have street lights.
5 posted on
11/03/2011 10:52:20 PM PDT by
GnuHere
To: Watchdog85
Very sad. Highland park was the location of Henry Ford’s model T factory.
6 posted on
11/03/2011 11:06:52 PM PDT by
pterional
To: Watchdog85
Welcome to Obamaville. Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.
To: Watchdog85
Where is all they’re Stimulus money? They could buy some of those Solyndra solar panels to lite their city!!!
9 posted on
11/03/2011 11:18:39 PM PDT by
tallyhoe
To: Watchdog85
That town was on the way out for a long time. Look at what their Municipal building looks like.
16 posted on
11/04/2011 12:29:33 AM PDT by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: Watchdog85
the lights on our street are provided by a mish-mash of homeowners using their own electricity. Doesn’t add a whole lot to the electric bill. Just sayin’
Razing and clearing abandoned homes would do a lot more for the crime aspect than a street light imo. not to mention improving the value of the existing homes amongst the abandoned ones.
18 posted on
11/04/2011 1:28:13 AM PDT by
blueplum
To: Watchdog85
Let’s see...Last year the U.S. (that includes Detroit) gave the Palestinian Authority $225,000,000. Maybe the Middle East needs street lights more than Detroit does.
19 posted on
11/04/2011 1:32:54 AM PDT by
count-your-change
(You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: Watchdog85
To summarize (from the article)
““It’s pretty ghetto,”
Expect this to be a nationwide phenom in the near future.
21 posted on
11/04/2011 2:40:45 AM PDT by
Molon Labbie
("It's free, swipe your EBT!")
To: Watchdog85
“How can you darken any city?” asked Victoria Dowdell,”
Easy, just keep voting for the same leftist jackasses, dear.
22 posted on
11/04/2011 3:16:52 AM PDT by
TalBlack
( Evil doesn't have a day job.)
To: Watchdog85; All
This is nothing...
From one of my "Detwaa" gnomes I hear they just went nuts putting in handicap accessible sidewalks on corners and streets everywhere, even though major chucks of the city are now uninhabited.
Must have been a Obummer related jobs progam from the Porkulus Bill....
23 posted on
11/04/2011 3:29:42 AM PDT by
taildragger
(( Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
To: Watchdog85
Have no fear, Highland Park. Although you have lost your street lights, had your garbage collection cut back and lost many basic services, you can sleep soundly knowing your elected leaders are still raking in their salaries and benefits.
To: Watchdog85
Welcome to the 3rd world!
25 posted on
11/04/2011 6:04:55 AM PDT by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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