Too bad they couldn't retrofit LED into the Shoebox's.

I've seen the evolution of C-470 for a long time, I think when they built the highway they used lots of shoeboxes. Lots of poles got later replaced with regular straight arms of about the same length of the original poles, with AE Luxmasters, and some AE Luxmasters have replaced the older shoeboxes on the old poles. Then later they started replacing the old shoeboxes or Luxmasters with cobraheads, but it was more rare. I remember that one pole on Lucent BLVD and C-470 has a light missing for years, now that intersection has the same old poles with LED lights on them. I remember when all of C-470 from Morrison Road all the way to Yosemite Ave were ALL black poles and shoeboxes. Things have been replaced gradually. On Platte Canyon Road and C470, they had old straight arm poles with long arms and AE luxmasters on them, and those stood strong until this year, later they took all the Luxmasters down and I remember when they had the poles WITH the fixtures laying on the ground. I didn't take them because I don't like doing that anymore, but then they added lots of new poles with new M-400 R3's on them. (Or maybe 125's, I didn't pay close enough attention) On newer tapered elliptical poles and arms, and then recently replaced all the cobraheads with the Leotek LED lights not long ago. Lots of poles along the highway have been replaced, some arms are still original, but not anymore.

On Morrison and C-470, they do have an older M-400 A1 FCO they recently installed that works fine, I believe they used one that they had stored for recycled lights, because before that intersection was all Shoeboxes or Luxmaster lights. Now C-470 is very mixed, and it's very interesting how they aren't consistent AT ALL with how they replace, they are very random, on the Platte Canyon Road intersection ONE of the old black poles with long straight arm is still there, and it's not in a particular place either, it was just random, they didn't replace one pole for some reason. Now it has a Leotek LED on it but the pole is still one of the old ones that was used before. They replaced random lights with the new Leotek LED's, in random places, so you can find an exit interchange with all LED's except for two lights right next to each other which are still shoebox HPS. I have no clue to what they are doing with the road, they just seem to be veeeery random with it.

Interesting about the variety of lights they have on the stretch of road. In Orlands, FL near Disney, the freeway has shoeboxes with long arms. They're HPS and brown.

Yep LilCinnamon's description is basically right on 'very random' is a good way to put the lighting on that highway

And there's this one shoebox that's sitting at an angle on its pole rather than facing straight down (& been that way for awhile) I was surprised to see it still like that when I took these pic's, considering not that far away there were LED replacements (they woulda had to drive right by it too)

I remember before the highway even existed (not real well as that was a long time ago...I don't remember what the original lights were since I didn't pay attention back then, other than the color)


LOL back as a kid one thing I clearly remember when they came through my neighborhood & changed out all the nice 'blue' (MV) streetlights for 'yucky orange' (HPS) ones

@Mike:
Its very common here to see random lights along roads. They're even doing it with LEDs installed from day one in some places.

Update:
The one on the left (which also got LED'ed at some point) is now gone pole & all (the right one may be too, but I can't remember exactly which light/pole I took a pic of there).. as are plenty of other lights/poles along that stretch of highway. I wonder if they kept the LED lights? or just junked them? (some of which were no more than a year or 2 old)

Do they install these kind of poles again after they come down? Here they usually add a concrete pole and in rare cases pour a new base for an aluminium pole.

@Model25FanForever:
The ones on the left - no, but on the right yep they still do use poles like that & will pour new concrete bases.
The highway these are on is currently undergoing a major widening project .. maybe when its all done I'll have to go by this spot & get a pic of whatever the new lights are...