Turn out the lights....part 1

Also sent a thirty minute active -- different colors are really -- I think it can go through the whole kaleidoscope if you will love of the you know the color spectrum like it'll move to the music. Well placed in disco -- you may be changed colors relative to -- a little bit tickets to coaxing a white suit too little it is a -- it's a profile. Pictures that picks up -- picture that too -- it's a beautiful thing coming into the city at night and seen a -- as an -- digital land to mark a year. It's been in movies. Bruce Springsteen mentioned in the globe story today played tell integration -- you know -- it it's just got this identity now with the city of Bosnia. Why would you want to shot off the lights it's not only a fabulous piece of engineering -- he is it is it it really -- a -- about I mean when they talk about injured -- is blending the best of engineering and architecture. This is really Ennis an aesthetic quality to music bridge I love to drive across it. I love to approach it date one night this decorative lighting. Costs however about 5000 dollars a month so -- bitch who I think Israel of senate before he is the world's best public servant -- history of mankind not just during his lifetime -- are all previous lifetimes.

In reckon it compared the king tie I -- a -- can -- can -- I have to can tap tests for us place for him. You know decorative approaches but that but -- above which is a fabulous fabulous public servant and honest honorable smart guy he is says he says look I'm up against hideous cost pressure. This is like crawling on broken glass account let any decision. Go on reviewed. That is going to cost the toll the toll payers. Another -- that we don't have to have been so it is a decorative feature so he says they reluctantly have got to do this. I disagree I think the symbolism is dreadful. I think the substance is wrong as well. What people are furious about other big items the rip off items the things you when I talked about quite a bit. The pension abuse scandalous the notion that somehow or other somebody once upon a time told us the whole Big Dig would cost two point two with two point five billion in by the time it's done it's close at at 171820. Billion. The leaks the shoddy construction the death of the -- to -- a valley. I think that was her name all those things that's what infuriates people the end. Would Paris turn off the lights on the Eiffel towel. Would exactly would Sydney turned on the lights on the yes Sydney.

how literacy would -- I take the drug dealers off the street hot hot I mean this sort things out. He had just. Don't mess with. It is a bit of this kind of a difference at all excited about -- skydiving yet got that -- W -- you got a dead view -- right now look at that skies and add magnificent. God is bigger by the way -- on Good Friday I expect he'll be at services this afternoon. -- so here's a story from the -- want to Boston's most recognizable landmarks as they come bridge went dark last night as the turnpike authority launched in the signatures and sentenced launched its most audacious effort yet. To save money and stave off insolvency they wouldn't fire a toll taker for example. They wouldn't cut their average pay of seventy grand a year but they'll shut off the lights on the -- umbrage to save sixty or India correct -- sixty grand a year. Are they using the evil little fluorescent. CFL like him to actually going to try to economical I bottoms and shift the actor -- stay up but don't try like every. Just -- every other light -- and by -- way when he 500 monitored read further on in the article believe it -- not in the tunnel -- the tip O'Neill tunnel which is not iconic which is not a symbol of anything other -- symbol a lot of -- yeah don't tell you -- but it you know it's it's had on when he used -- industry and it's just out of -- a road -- down -- the city and it's a -- it's going to turn up every. -- You have time but they have those huge transition meaning exhaust that sits in anyway. Question is. Do you think this is a good idea or not to darken -- these take him bridge. Taking away -- to me it's a marketing tool for the city I think it is hugely it's a mistake -- for follow it for something a small assist. I know it's a separate agency still but they're gonna be emerging I come over the Tobin Bridge every day I tell you about it all the time yup the -- clock and the guys are integrated there's two guys there reading books show. Why can't every one guy reading a book 17 east -- grand salary saved. You cover the cost of the blue lights leave does -- come -- ago we've -- six point 72666. -- succeeded.

In this this whole topic falls into the category for me. The the seven dollar holes and he hit his wife's not just -- of the people in East Boston Winthrop north and so on and so forth. Who -- really by virtue of geography. Full cost absolutely forced. To use that and that that's a ridiculous cost for an ordinary citizen to have the -- of a regular basis. It is a dreadful statement Todd that we make as a city and -- a commonwealth to visitors whether they're coming from Europe. Whether they're coming from other states it's a triple caused -- hey hey hey welcome to -- love to have it and by the way we started -- bring your flashlight -- but -- Staten gouging and from the minute he he has seven dollar tolls to me followed to the same category of shutting off the lights. -- something important about symbols something very important about making people feel excited about the city. And welcome to the city into this.

We also are marketing budgets do we not -- promote the city around the country issued this is one of those things that works to make that happen all by itself 61726666. -- how do you feel about shutting off the lights and -- they can be -- good morning to you --

Battery life on good morning Cuban there's different. Where rebels other there was something with the -- Pensions and it -- like a good idea of a vocal by the on the rare later on. Some don't get whatever the rich so what it on the fact that it was dark the lights out and I'm not going through the corporate world. Okay what what most of what you don't what you would vote their according action. And not. Army veteran is trying to re -- there was reason to was backed up right where it. You know are just trying to help voters there is one -- but god and bubble -- But are there and a -- they got into one -- radically feminized we don't. And the whole apple what you're gonna pay for.

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I say good -- and it that they get so basically it's think about it we could stand the fact hear or develop a double up that particular site. We want to keep this particular -- that because the dictator -- and here we -- up victim might oil what are what are what are thought better.

So you -- you equate them as being in the same you want to. You want both shut off his every --

No shut up effort just fired regardless of what do you really let.

Exactly the Citgo sign does nobody any -- I don't know why they kept the parliament I would I would I would not -- opposite -- I would -- down has become -- of the bottle that skyline it you know a lot of us out and you get rid of it it would be part of no longer being the Boston skyline never -- forget about it instantly. Totally different -- now know -- satellite and a half of that big Communist advertisement -- Ken marsh wears a -- Having a blue lights on the city of Boston when you comment on the gorgeous a complete cessation of bridges school that is failure logo should that is the branding of this city.

Should not detract from an over the -- the Citgo sign is also part of the Brent it really is it's part of the -- you see that Citgo sign everybody loves Fenway Park everybody sitting at debate where parts is this it goes on all the marathon has by the way they focus on the Citgo sign. You come off the top of heartbreak hill. And the sign that carries you dead into the city is this discuss that's kind of what they -- laces.

Is another reason to get rid of it -- half -- a 6176. Cities -- it's doesn't always -- naked people running are -- are we don't want to tie you up pathetic artist has got -- signs of Austin all the great traditions of Boston do you want to get -- no I want to keep the -- like -- and yet so -- and then you pretend you retire like alternative isn't worried they wear a city that is steeped in irony I'm not but I like the tradition that preceded the marathon. Which one -- a marathon been around all lot of times sixty years -- and -- that -- hundred years hundreds and hundreds -- ten years I want to jurors in the came before -- 110 years which -- how many years were there before the last 110 years took place so I. Traditionalist. Your the guy I like the new -- WOK guys have to like get Blake fielder on WRKO atomic Todd here.

Is that you know either. Give us that 19%. Nineteen cent gas tax. Although going to turn the lights so when you missed the template in in Boston and and one other thing let's go let's build a bridge. In Boston that under the correct meteorological conditions will drop place sort of cars is that driving by what -- Whatever rocket scientists thought that --

Does is make them do that. Doesn't I I don't drive under its I don't know. You know nothing I don't understand about the say never read that I have never say they're -- have Brothers and -- also -- us all -- that huge structures to keep the -- opera and it's a suspension bridge right next to it is a -- that runs the whole like that it and has no suspension how they do that. On pillows all white could have done that with the --

Because I think they would of did the thing that preceded it at least the idea was something -- even Z -- schemes he was the most convoluted screwed up ugly thing in the whole wide world there's just gonna be nothing but concrete ramps and -- and everything else so they decided to try to but I really decides why they did the suspension as they come I think was considerably less expensive -- scheme Z and prettier and its totality.

And when -- blue -- plays and we have to -- where I am sure absolutely so -- 617266. Exceed sixty to save money they want to shut off the -- they started last night shutting off lights and -- number Jodi thank the bridges blonde -- not the safety -- again we want to make -- nobody goes into a -- and act and the lights for airplanes and stuff yeah those are still -- they -- so they don't want to destroy the -- they just wanted to be low at night anymore at the cost of sixty grand a year -- in -- what do you think.

I I would think you're going and they can bridge. They start with our solar powered by.

It sits there in the subtle they could they throw up a couple solar panels EM or RadioShack connect the wires to implement it could not keep those things -- really it's shutting their doors and it's up in the -- I -- how about a little solar. -- make up their -- You mean like with I mean a -- minimum yeah when medicine and I was trying to figure magic is -- not just we're going to -- really go and orwellian idea specialist. On pop pop alternative power -- okay think of it -- Cosby questionable why could never win -- up there. Baby. Good but that -- probably capture one of the sky helicopters that are giving -- traffic their market you know we don't -- those anymore now they have camera somewhere yeah I mean if we can do without a Boston Globe on a daily basis we could certainly do about the Alec this is one of the problems I think having these independent agencies -- the turnpike authority decides to shut off the -- they just do it -- it says. --

Economic policy ties to Beirut say thank you Bob. Maybe this has assembled. A delightful -- three --

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Well thank you for making a point Bob that's very important -- kicks off our new segment that you said he wanted to start today and that is the non sequitur or period where everyone is supposed to cost say something totally unrelated to what -- I want. I I I every.