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StreetLight #226 (Highway LED Replacments)
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A sad sight to see...these things replaced some nice old MV Cobraheads :(
(I believe LilCinnamon has a pic of the originals, I'll try to find it & make a link)
I don't mind the white color of LED (in some ways prefer it over HPS), but the original lanterns looked much better than these (as did the fact they were MV).
Pretty sure it happened this year too. Image quality isn't that great since this was a frame-grab from video taken in a moving vehicle...
Location:
Bailey, CO
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MV is still my favorite, I remember when everything in & around Denver was MV...then they started switching out to HPS...I guess what I'm seeing is the next generation of that: HPS being switched out for LED
(like going to a store today, I see there's been allot more HPS replaced recently - all probably in the last month or so)
(And on thursday I saw a truck in Littleton working on a streetlight...I assumed just replacing the lamp, but nope turns out, replacing the fixture with a LED one.
Looking back deeper in the town (from 285) today, I still saw bucket lights (no sign of any LEDs) ... So I'm assuming the town is still MV with exception of the highway..
Thanks for that, I just the info section with it.
@Lil'Cinnamon:
Wait...they took down these LEDs that were just installed in 2016? Taxpayer dollars at waste again
And converting the 2 lanes to one, & some turn lanes? WTF? sort of downgrade is that?