Boston to build solar-powered evacuation route

By adamg - 10/14/09 - 5:05 pm

Mass. High Tech reports the city's won a $1.3-million federal stimulus grant to build a solar-powered fuel station for emergency vehicles and "solar-powered street lights, traffic lights, video cameras and message boards" along Washington Street (apparently, the one through Roxbury, JP, Roslindale and West Roxbury), because, when the Big One hits, we might not be able to rely on normal power supplies for such things.

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The fact that a solar

By J - 10/14/09 - 9:11 pm
#1

The fact that a solar powered street light is new in 2009 saddens me.

installing them in Boston is

By anon (not verified) - 10/15/09 - 7:52 pm
#2

installing them in Boston is new. inventing is obviously not.

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