In 2013, fewer than five municipalities in Ontario, Canada, had upgraded their street lights to LED. Today there are more than 100. Scott Vokey, energy services manager for non-profit group LAS (Local Authorities Services), says many of the province’s municipalities are so small and remote that many organisations refuse to provide...
There is no evidence that standard street lighting solutions lead to fewer crashes. And a lot of notions about lighting must be challenged. So says Dr John Milton, director of enterprise risk and safety management at the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) in the US, whose area covers seven million people, 11,200...
Six years ago, the City of Los Angeles launched the largest municipal LED retrofit programme in the world. Now responsible for 215,000 streetlights, 250 employees and an operating budget of US$25 million, the city’s Bureau of Street Lighting director Ed Ebrahimian says Los Angeles may do some things differently if it were starting to...
