Decorative city lighting in all neighborhoods
Resident asks for up-lighting, tree lights and color-changing seasonal lighting across the city, including neighborhoods of color and under bridges, to beautify areas that look neglected.
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The resident's idea, as submitted
The idea
City light installation. Make the city more beautiful. Install up lighting, tree lights around the city and not just in non-POC neighborhoods that automatically illuminate at night and change colors for seasonal events. Under bridges like fields corn
Who it helps and why
Often you can tell when Boston neighborhoods are poor because they’re ugly. The streets are torn up and riddled with construction that’s past timeline. We need to make the poor pretty again.
Details
- Cycle
- 2024–25
- Submitted
- August 14, 2024
- Neighborhood
- City-wide
- Portal category
- Streets & Sidewalks
- How it was submitted
- Individual submission
- Submission language
- English
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