Does anywhere still have orange street lights?
Posted by ChaGalMDog@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 11 comments
Even my grandparents in proper rural Northumbria have got the white led streetlights (though not on their road but the nearest one to them a few miles away). I was just wondering if anyone lived or knew somewhere that hadn’t gotten round to changing them? If there are still any I am considering a drive out for them, it’s all I want for my birthday, weird I know.
Adventurous-Dog-3786@reddit
There’s a new estate that I pass on the way to work and it’s got red street lights. Bat friendly from what I’ve heard.
midgetman166@reddit
Animal friendly in general. These new LED bulbs are f*cking nature up massively, the old SOX ones were so much better for wildlife (only emitted 1 wavelength 598nm)
DutchOfBurdock@reddit
The UK is in the final phrases of replacing the old sodium lamps for LED ones. There may be some isolated or conservational areas they're still used. LPS/SOX lights are no longer manufactured (at least in any real way) and considered obsolete.
Koda614@reddit
Not all of rural Northumberland has been changed. Bardon Mill up towards Henshaw/Tow House is still on the old lights. The A69 road that runs parallel is LED but not the village itself.
Washington, Tyne and Wear has only been partially upgraded. Most of the country lanes are still on the Orange/yellow bulbs, but they are actively in the process of changing them all so as months go on they will disappear.
There’s also random spots here and there that are under private ownership or management. The co-op supermarket in Ryton (upon Tyne) is frozen in time. Old streetlights outside and in the car park, and the shop itself is equally a time capsule too. Old co-operative signage and logos outside, and inside is still original Somerfield - Play a game of hunting for stickers and signs carrying the old Somerfield logo as you walk through. There’s A LOT.
SpunkSacks@reddit
It’s the increased light pollution I hate. I had to get blackout curtains.
But they do go off at 01:00. It’s glorious in the garden in the summer then.
Odd-Paramedic-3826@reddit
Look for privately owned places that haven't pulled in much money in the last few decades. There's a care home near my house that still has orange lights in the carpark, I bet places like butlins or gullivers world still have them about. I also know for a fact there's a footbridge somewhere in salford that still has them
inheavywater@reddit
Just_A_some1@reddit
There are a couple of off-white ones around here, very few PURE orange ones though, but they always make me feel cosy when I drive past them
Dear-Gold-7009@reddit
Got quite a few off whites in my area, not as nice as the orange ones but still really cozy indeed
GeminiCheese@reddit
I wish. I hate the new ones with a passion.
The lambent orange glow was comforting. Now we have pools of stark light interspersed with patches of inky darkness.
The lamp-posts are spaced for the old bulbs, and the new ones don't spread as far. Without changing the infrastructure, we are stuck with streets that feel far darker and less safe than before.
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