Bay Bridge boosters seek to keep lights display

A nightly, constantly changing display of 25,000 white lights on the Bay Bridge designed by a New York artist is set to end its two-year run early next year.|
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SAN FRANCISCO — It's going to take $4 million to keep darkness from falling on the Bay Bridge.

A nightly, constantly changing display of 25,000 white lights on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge designed by New York artist Leo Villareal is set to end its two-year run early next year.

But the San Francisco Chronicle (http://bit.ly/1thUBEa ) reports Wednesday that if the creators of the installation can raise $4 million by Dec. 31 the lights can become a long-term fixture and the bridge can remain what's been billed as "the world's largest illuminated sculpture."

An initial push this year to raise funds for a 10-year reinstallation fell flat.

But Bridge officials now say that if boosters can raise the $4 million for an upgraded version of the lights, bridge crews can maintain them indefinitely.

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Information from: San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News, http://www.mercurynews.com

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