Wooster Square Finds Solution to Dark Bridge & Crime with Solar Powered Lights

The formerly dark and dangerous Court Street Bridge was a place that bad guys were hanging out and mugging folks until the community came together.

 They organized community meetings and mobilized the many young families with children. They collaborated with city officials such as Rob Smuts and local cop on the beat Pete Krause.

 

A more permanent lighting solution ran into what might have been a legal train wreck: The ruling authority on what could be done on the bridge was in the hands not of City Hall but of Metro North Railroad.

And that entity allowed no installation of electricity above their tracks.

City Engineer’s office lighting specialist Sebouh Asadourian came up with the solution: A set of three solar power lights that store energy in battery packs and without a wire in sight click on and off with the rhythms of the sun.

 

 

So they solved the issue of muggings by providing solar powered lights and the issue that no electric lines be run above the railroad tracks.  I like it!

You can read more about solar powered lights at my blog.

Thanks for reading,

Jill