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I rather miss them in the streets. It's only been, what, ten years or so since they've been replacing most of them with white LEDs round my way, but it's almost
by jlarcombe 3y ago
I rather miss them in the streets. It's only been, what, ten years or so since they've been replacing most of them with white LEDs round my way, but it's almost hard to remember that everything was yellow whenever you went out in the dark! Especially amazing atmosphere when it snowed...
- BoxOfRain 3y agoI really prefer the old yellow sodium light to the harsher white LEDs, I get that the SOX bulbs weren't economical to make any more for various reasons but wish we could have migrated to monochromatic yellow LEDs instead of white ones. They're not just more pleasant aesthetically, they're also better for insects and animals than broad-spectrum white lights. I don't get the obsession with making lights as cold and harsh as possible, give me warm light that makes the night look like night rather than a bad approximation of day. At least by the time they got round to doing my street they used a lower temperature white than the ultra-harsh 'prison yard white' colour used in the earlier installations.
- djmips 3y agoI don't have any solid evidence but I feel like the LED also disturbs sleep of people who live near street lamps. Also I found out recently that never putting an outdoor light shining upwards is somewhat less disruptive to moth navigation.