What? How is Twinkle Lights going to fight crime in Downtown San Diego? Well, Major Kevin Faulconer and local leaders are coming up with alternate ideas of fighting crime besides having the local police department trying to always do it themselves. The Downtown San Diego Partnership cites studies around U.K. and United States where crime is decreased by 21% when lights were improvements were done the city streets.
Currently, 400 twinkle lights have been installed on trees around Downtown San Diego courtesy from the Clean and Safe Program. Now they want to expand the twinkle lights onto C Street but the local community must raise the money. C Street is one of those busy streets in downtown San Diego that the San Diego Trolley goes down. The trolley even goes through Smart Corner that’s a Downtown San Diego Condo and Loft property. Because of this, there are many unwanted people that kind of hang around the area and sometimes feels, not so safe. With the twinkle lights installed, I know I would feel safer walking down a street that’s more lite up. I always tend to walk on the side of the street where it’s lighter because of safety.
There are many local owners that like the twinkle lights and are very excited it’s already here and also hopefully extended throughout downtown. Besides the safety, I love seeing twinkle lights on trees that are lined up down the street. It always makes me think about Christmas even when I live in a city that never snows.