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Lighting up large sections of highway causes massive light pollution (which not only is ugly, but is detrimental to nature) along with high energy consumption a
by volkl48 9y ago
Lighting up large sections of highway causes massive light pollution (which not only is ugly, but is detrimental to nature) along with high energy consumption and maintenance costs for not all that much in safety benefit. I'm generally skeptical of the value of doing so for a long highway rather than just at interchanges/the like.
Belgium is one of the brightest spots on the planet because of their overuse of it (and that's an improvement from how bad it used to be): http://thismustbebelgium.com/belgium-spotted-space/ http://thismustbebelgium.com/belgium-spotted-space/