Sunday, March 19, 2006

Downtown in an old light

The trend of the new administration apparently seems to be to undo everything the old administration was attempting to do. That's cool. Custer did say not to change anything until he got back.
Anyway, the latest apparent preference of some of the brighter lights on the Downtown Development Authority is to ditch the old administration's idea of brighter lights downtown. The old mayor, of course, had recommended the change, but he was just a professional planner familier with trends in most other progressive communities. Those in the driver's seat now seem to like those hideous orangish lights that put everything into a nightmarish hue. It's kind of fitting -- the color matches the orangish yellow streak that you can see from Ediison's power plant on clear summer days.
Some say it's more compatible with the downtown's historic look of the city. Maybe they should go with gaslights. Afterall, I know when I'm walking downtown at night, I'd rather have less light than more.

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