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LED lights are meant to save energy. They’re creating glaring problems (wapo.st)
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[–] sshff@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 year ago

I think a lot of it is also that we never bothered to use the switch to LED streetlights to fix the design issues with streetlights as a whole. So many of them are designed with no real care in their directionality. They are there to light downwards but make no efforts to minimise any directed up. A lot could be done to mitigate the effects with a better design focus to limit the lighting only to where required.