You can ignore the infrastructure for only so long. From The Detroit News:
Detroit working to restore power after system failure
Power is slowly being restored Tuesday afternoon after a widespread outage caused evacuations of buildings throughout the downtown, including Joe Louis Arena, Coleman A. Young Municipal Center, the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice, the Detroit Institute of Arts and some buildings at Wayne State University.
According to Detroit Press Office shortly before noon: "The city's public lighting grid suffered a major cable failure that has caused the entire grid to lose power at approximately 10:30 this morning. The outage is affecting all customers on the PLD grid. We have isolated the issue and are working to restore power as soon as possible."
A bit more:
The outage comes at a time when the city works to transition to providing electricity to customers. As part of the bankruptcy proceedings, negotiations had the city exiting the power business in the next five to seven years by migrating customers to DTE. The DTE system will be expanded in the upcoming years to cover the extra load and the lighting department will decommission its equipment.
How's that progressive government working out for you? I remember when Detroit was an economic powerhouse.
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