New lights promise colorful, safer downtown St. Louis

by | Aug 26, 2016

More than 2,000 downtown streetlights will get colorful light strips with “smart technology” as part of an effort to brand downtown and improve public safety.

The $4 million project also will replace old halogen bulbs in so-called “cobra head streetlights” with the light-emitting diode bulbs. The project, led by the nonprofit group Downtown STL, is tentatively expected to be completed by the end of 2017.

The new technology also includes software that can detect the sound of a gunshot and notify officials, Downtown STL Chief Executive Missy Kelley said.

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