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Macon-Bibb County could replace about 1,600 street lights as part of a blight project aimed at saving money and improving safety.
The commission’s Operations and Finance Committee moved ahead to the full commission a resolution to spend $1.5 million on replacing 1,590 lights around the urban center of Macon. The change would cut down on maintenance costs while better lighting also would improve pedestrian and vehicular traffic around the county, officials said.
Georgia Power is replacing more than 6,000 street lights across the county with new energy-efficient LED bulbs.
If approved next week, Macon-Bibb would begin putting in additional street lights that are owned by the the county. Street lights are considered a capital improvement project because they enhance the quality of life, thus allowing costs to be covered by the blight remediation bonds, blight consultant Cass Hatcher said.
Some of the roads that would get new lights are Telfair and Cherry streets, Martin Luther King Boulevard and Riverside Drive.
“Most of our lights are in the core of downtown and outliers,” Hatcher said during Tuesday’s meeting.
A computer system would give Macon-Bibb employees the ability control the brightness and monitor when lights go out.
“We’ll have better quality of lights,” Facilities Management Director Robert Ryals said. “It’ll save us manpower and we can diagnose from a remote location.”
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