Dinkytown pedestrian lighting installation begins

From Ward 2 Council Member Robin Wonsley’s newsletter:

Dinkytown is getting new pedestrian lighting thanks to City Council advocacy and funding.

For decades, students and university community members have emphasized the need for increased pedestrian-level lighting in the Dinkytown/Marcy-Holmes area. Ward 2 Council Member Robin Wonsley worked with students and stakeholders to allocate $500,000 to install new pedestrian-level lights to address this important safety and livability issue.

Lighting installation has now begun — most of this work is planned for the summer so that the city can be done before the school year starts.

This work will cause intermittent short term no parking restrictions using only as much space as needed for work immediately adjacent to the lighting construction. There will not be any full road closures or detours with the work.

The approximate project area is illustrated above. It includes installation of 29 lights that will illuminate the sidewalk and bike lanes.