[sunjain]

I am surprised there is not much noise over this. In my city, they recently replaced street lights with the LED ones. These were so bright and piercing, I complained to the city, and they replaced ones near my house to lower intensity one. Still the other one's not the nearest to my house are still so bright, it is very unpleasant, even though they are at a distance. No one in my neighborhood seems to be bothered by these? In my opinion these pose serious risk to health, not just ours but to birds, animals and plants. Even when driving on roads, where these lights are on, they just hit you like a sunlight.

[jonstewart]

Washington, DC is starting to switch to LEDs for streetlights. They're whiter than the old sodium bulbs, but the District uses 3000K lights for main streets and 2700K for residential streets. The LEDs are directed towards the ground at a 45° angle--the globe diffuses the light, but they produce much less light pollution and they'll save a ton of power, time, and money.

[smolder]

Nice to know not every municipality is too dumb to research color temp before buying into a conversion.