Hi,

 

I was wondering if anyone knew why some of our landmarks seem to not be lit at night any more. I seem to remember the Main Avenue Bridge glowing blue at night....  The Pylons on the Hope Bridge, the Clock Tower at WSM...and even the rather mundane CSU Rhodes Tower, being illuminated. The Jack Knife bridge would look great repainted and lit too. It seemed to give the city-scape more presence at night when such structures were lit. Not that I am not for doing the lights out practice to save energy as many cities have participated in---but it seems with low energy lighting, that we could bring back a couple of these landmarks to the night skyline.

I sometimes wonder if there is some connection between EC's appearance and MTS's disappearance.  :|  Are we being pranked?

 

EC, probably economic reasons

I believe a lot of these ceased to be lit due to budgetary constraints.

The Main Avenue bridge has white uplights at the base of each arch (it looked blue because of the bridge's paint job). Last I checked, the Jack Knife bridge is lit as part of the bicentennial bridge lighting. CSU Rhodes Tower used to be floodlit, but I believe it was outgoing president Michael Schwartz who decided to switch to the green "CSU" signage for two reasons; 1. it's much less expensive and 2. adding the signage helped as far as wayfinding.

 

The Hope Memorial pylons - I agree, they need to have better lighting.

There are still a number of bridges that are lit in the flats.  Both jack knife bridges, the main ave, detroit-superior, and hope memorial bridges, the lift bridge that goes to the salt mine and I think the RR lift bridge is also lit (dimly).

 

The detroit superior bridge is lit up beautifully and should never be in the dark.  Everyone I bring to the city comments on how beautiful the bridge is at night.