Many of the city's 77,000 street lights and 10,000 alley lights are on series circuits ... each street light at a higher voltage. Similar to old-fashioned holiday string lights, if one light ...

According to a news release, nearly 54,000 of the city's 87,000 street and alley lights will be updated, making 60% of Milwaukee brighter at night and, and greatly reducing the number of street ...