At least for some, malls are the avenues they know: thoroughfares without lights or signs.
"Quite frankly, Goulden Avenue has been a thoroughfare, and a traffic light will be a major step in protecting the safety of the students and the other pedestrians," Ms. Eisland said.
But some residents who had their doubts complained about the brilliantly lit main thoroughfare earlier this week.
Bachelet urged drivers to not use major thoroughfares because traffic lights were out and many pedestrian bridges had collapsed.
The project, which will be financed with about $2.5 million in federal, state and county funds, includes repaving portions of heavily traveled thoroughfares, synchronizing stop lights and fixing potholes.
Traffic along Calle Ocho, the main thoroughfare of Little Havana, became noticeably lighter and all work was dropped as groups of people crowded around TV sets to witness this piece of history.
In a dimly lit underground train station thoroughfare, an Indigenous Australian man in a ratty, sweat-covered singlet yells at passers-by, flailing his arms and stomping on the ground.
At one point, officials turned off every other street light on the main commercial thoroughfare to save money.
Throughout the day, ambulances could be seen weaving slowly through the eerily light traffic on Moscow's thoroughfares, their emergency lights piercing the thick smoke, which had lifted somewhat by evening.
At 10 A.M., the pattern shifts to a midday progression that gives equal amounts of green-light time to the main thoroughfare and the side streets.
Historic Fremont Street, the site of Vegas' first hotel, first traffic light, first elevator and first paved thoroughfare, reinvented Vegas once again in 1995 when five city blocks from Main to 4th Street converted into the Fremont Experience.
