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How many City of Seattle dollars will it take to screw in 40,000 light bulbs--LED, to be exact? Only about $6 million. The city will use some of its federal stimulus money to begin replacing the city's incandescent streetlights for the long-lasting, cost-saving, and eco-friendly LED streetlights. Folks in Capitol Hill have already begun seeing street life post-LED lights, and from the sounds of it, life is good. However, not every neighborhood will be as lucky as Capitol Hill. The City of Seattle estimates the full switch-a-roo will take four to six years. Guess that's one way to keep the stimulus money lasting longer.

Further proving that Seattle traffic planning has previously been a huge, cruel joke upon the people trying to utilize it--the city announced yesterday that they synchronized downtown traffic lights for the first time in 20 years. Streetlights at 258 downtown intersections have been synchronized. According to the P-I's report on the synchronization of the traffic lights, "the city predicted a 12 percent reduction in stops and 40 percent shorter travel times through the 1.25-mile long district."