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Mayor Bottoms to Host Launch Event for "Light Up the Night" Citywide Lighting Installation

Post Date:12/13/2021 11:17 AM

Mayor’s Office of Communications
55 Trinity Avenue, Suite 2500 • Atlanta, Georgia 30303

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Mayor Bottoms to Host Launch Event for "Light Up the Night" Citywide Lighting Installation

WHO:

Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms

Josh Rowan, Commissioner, Atlanta Department of Transportation

Andrea Boone, District 10 Council Member

Chris Womack, Georgia Power CEO

WHAT:

Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and Council Member Andrea Boone will host a ceremony celebrating the start of the "Light Up the Night" citywide streetlight installation project on Tuesday, December 14, 2021, at 11:00 a.m.  

The “One Atlanta—Light Up the Night” initiative will increase the City of Atlanta’s streetlight footprint by 10,000 lights—with focus on areas with high rates of traffic crashes and crime. The plan follows a six-month streetlight inventory and assessment conducted by the Atlanta Department of Transportation (ATLDOT) and a team of industrial engineering students at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).

As part of the inventory, the team has evaluated the City’s existing streetlight footprint and identified where additional lights are most needed based on crime rates, crash rates, and existing lighting coverage.

Media members are asked to RSVP toatlmedia@atlantaga.gov.
 WHEN:

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Program- 11:00 a.m.-11:25 a.m.

Launch Photo Op- 11:25 a.m.-11:40 a.m.

WHERE:

iVillage @MLK (Hamilton Holmes MARTA Station)
2491 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive SW
Atlanta, GA 30311

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For more information about the City of Atlanta, please visit www.atlantaga.gov or watch City Channel 26. Follow the City of Atlanta on Facebook and Twitter @CityofAtlanta.

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