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Light Our Bridges campaign brings ribbons of light to Missoula’s bridges across the Clark Fork

On Thursday afternoon, a technician from Liberty Electric began installing hundreds of L.E.D. lights, each about the size of a golf ball cut in half, on the Van Buren footbridge near the University of Montana campus.

The new lights are part of a project called Light Our Bridges Missoula, according to spokesman Geoff Badenoch, a former longtime head of the Missoula Redevelopment Agency.

"This a project that had its genesis in a trip that some Missoula locals took to Europe," he explained. "They saw lighted bridges there and thought it would be a good idea here. Their initial concept was to light all the bridges, quite an ambitious lighting system, and as they started bringing people in, they said ‘let’s back off a little bit’ and started looking at a smaller version."

Geoff Badenoch said that the group is paying to replace the city’s existing bridge lights with low energy L.E.D.s as well.

"When our project is done, the power bill that the city pays now will be less," he said. "So there will be more light, but it will cost the taxpayers less."

For more information visit http://www.lightourbridgesmissoula.org

By David Erickson

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/news/local/group-begins-installing-lights-on-missoula-bridges/article_a5fa7fee-558d-11e4-8ce1-bf41b75621ef.html

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