Former Mayor Gavin Newsom and still reigning Mayor Willie Brown announced a glorious new light project that's set to make everything better. Why? Because tiny LED lights make everything better. Inspired by the bridge's 75th anniversary, according to SF Appeal, artist Ben Davis Leo Villareal will create a wondrous lighting spectacular of lights, "which will not be visible to drivers on the bridge but can be seen from a distance" and "will be mounted on the vertical cables of the western span and will operate for about seven hours per night."

"This is the kind of thing we need to do to remind people what a special place this is," Newsom said. "I think this thing is going to blow people away." (He's right.) Also, you guys, it's going to take around $2.5 million more for completion. Which is mere pennies, really, if you consider the city is rife with uninspired street art, DIY nonsense, and Diego Riveraesque murals that make our eyelids droop and then fall into a coma and then die.

If you would like to donate to the "The Bay Lights" project, and why shouldn't you?, payments can be sent via www.causes.com/thebaylights.

[SF Appeal]