The street light outside my house as just been replaced and things must have changed in the last few years as it is not a sodium light with its traditional yellow light. It looks like it has fluorescent lamps in, and gives a very white light.

Does anyone know if these are fluorescents and why the change?

The very latest ones are LED - it's being introduced as they are lower power and last longer than sodium.

Less light polution too - estates with new lighting , apart from having white light also look completely different from the air, almost unlit when looking at them.


The sodium lit estates are bright orange from above.

parents have had theirs changed. I think they are fab, lovely white light that is easy to see in, almost like daylight.

hmm, ones on gourock high street were changed to white ones years ago, nearly 10 years ago maybe? they're very bright, and white, but you somehow can't really see anything, people cross the road and they don't really get lit up. its very strange.
not sure what type they are

There is definitely less light pollution from it. We are not getting half so much light thrown into our house.

It doesnt look like led, so I guess there must be one in the middle.

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Originally posted by Xtreme Kermit
There is definitely less light pollution from it. We are not getting half so much light thrown into our house.

It doesnt look like led, so I guess there must be one in the middle.

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Weren't the sodium ones put up in the 70's and 80's?

Most likely metal halide HID lamps with a new head and reflector that directs the light in a more sensible pattern than the old sodium street lights.

In my street as a kid, they were wired concrete jobs - mid 70s.



With a bowl for the bulb cover, which if you hit it with a football it used to borst.

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Originally posted by blakep82
hmm, ones on gourock high street were changed to white ones years ago, nearly 10 years ago maybe? they're very bright, and white, but you somehow can't really see anything, people cross the road and they don't really get lit up. its very strange.
not sure what type they are

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I dont them! All of the lights in leeds have been changed, and they are too similar to the colour of headlights. As you approach a junction, the glow on the road looks like a car is there.

I can see why they have done it though, given the cost of running street lights. Also the fact that they come straight on at full brightness means you can switch them on and off in sync with traffic lights, to only light a stretch when cars are there.

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Originally posted by T66
In my street as a kid, they were wired concrete jobs - mid 70s.



With a bowl for the bulb cover, which if you hit it with a football it used to borst.

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Originally posted by T66
In my street as a kid, they were wired concrete jobs - mid 70s.



With a bowl for the bulb cover, which if you hit it with a football it used to borst.

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They were gas when I was a kid. We continuously broke the glass playing football; we were not very popular.

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still got gas ones round my way although they are slowly replacing them

We've had ours replaced with the white ones recently. So bloody bright I can walk around the house with them with the curtains closed for christs sake. Nice and bright, if you're scared of the dark. Horrible. Why the hell do people need so much light? Night is MEANT to be dark god damnit.

It's like the arms race towards brighter and brighter car headlights - now anyone with normal lights is masked by the stadium lighting from modern cars and I find the glare from them twice as bad as old school lights, especially as they're so much sharper cut-off and flash at you as they go over bumps. I've got a bee in my bonnet about lighting. They make pedestrians and cyclists practically impossible to see if they are between you and the car with the bright lights.

[Edited on 18/12/11 by coyoteboy]