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Springfield will switch to LED street lights

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published September 13, 2022 at 4:08 PM EDT
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This is one of more than 14,000 street lights in Springfield, MA that will be upgraded to LED technology in the next 3-5 years.
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The full retrofit will take 3-5 years

Plans have been announced to upgrade all street lights in the city of Springfield, Massachusetts to LED technology.

Beginning in January 2023, the utility company Eversource will do the retrofit at no cost to the city.

It is expected to take 3-5 years to modernize all of the more than 14,000 street lights in Springfield.

WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Springfield DPW Director Chris Cignoli.

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The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.
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