>> At night time you won't see anything. Almost all of the streetlights in the city have been turned off, because Detroit can't pay the bill! Just to be clear,

>> At night time you won't see anything. Almost all of the streetlights in the city have been turned off, because Detroit can't pay the bill! Just to be clear, the city may be able to pay the electricity bill, but not the bill to repair the light or the copper wire which has been stolen by scrappers. Lighting is just one of those things you probably take for granted. When you don't have it, and your kids need to walk between abandoned homes with no street lights in the darkness to get to their bus stop, it becomes an essential public safety requirement. Freep.com covered how the lack of public lighting really puts kids in danger in a good piece last year.