Anyone experienced these?

Where I live the council have replaced the old sodium lights with LED street lights, but they brightly illuminate under were the lamp is leaving the space between the lights much darker then before, also causing shadows far more then before.

Today I had a miss with a couple of school girls who stood in the road but in the shadows of a van. Dressed in their dark school uniform they were really hard to see.

Shouldn't schools design some reflective material into a school uniform or some light coloured clothing? when I went to school my school uniform was dark at least i had to wear white socks.

My school uniform was black. Well, black trousers and a black blazer. It's idiotic when you think about it. Pedestrians can be barely visible at the best of times.

I don't think it should be up to the schools to do anything.

It's a parent's job to protect their child by teaching them road safety and/or giving them a light coloured coat to wear.

LED street lighting is popping up everywhere and it is appalling. The OP's description of pools of light being created directly under the lamp post (ane no where else) is spot on. The areas in between are left very dark.

The difference between streets which are still lit with sodium lights and those which have new LED lighting is enormous. I was going to say like night and day, but it's true! I genuinely feel that the overall reduction in lighting is an accident waiting to happen. When driving along these roads it is very difficult to make out the edge of the carriageway or see people emerge from between parked cars.

While I get the benefits (reduced energy consumption and light pollution) I do think the correct balance hasn't been achieved.

They're awful lighting. Quite a few near me and there is a very strong blue tint lighting up the place. Very eerie. Like something from a horror or stalker, slasher movie as you see the body shadow lingering in the dark.

Bigger black spots between lights.

We have this dreadful lighting around here now too - street lighting amounts to small pools of light not too dissimilar to bright moonlight shining down at intervals along the road surface, with everything else surrounding in complete blackness. Unless you're on a road with brightly lit shop fronts, it can actually be quite difficult to see where you are.

They're an accident waiting to happen. Some degree of light pollution is necessary at night time in populated places. It's a side-effect of being able to see where you're going.

I live in a village and the council have put one right outside my back fence my home and garden is like Wembley stadium at a night match I have no idea why they have done this as its not on a road and the village does not have many street lights but have deemed that this tiny walkway for two people need this light even though we have light sensors on the walls

So now instead of laying in my bed watching the stars like I used to I now have to have a blackout blind and thick curtains to try and stop this light flooding my bedroom and living room. No more sitting out in the garden with a burner looking at the sky .. What where they thinking

they`re awful and very dangerous.

they might be better in other areas, i don`t know but here they create several feet of very dark shadows between each post and you cannot see a black bin until you`ve walked into it.

i can actually walk fine in the dark at night and see where i`m going without the lights, the lights make the shadows much darker.

i hope it doesn`t take a few incidents to get them changed or made fit.

it would help if you could photograph dark.

I can see much better without lights. I never need to put my torch on walking over the fields . I only need it when walking along the road to let drivers know we are there.

A lot of the sensor lights people have here seem to blind me walking along the road.. if I were a robber I could easy break into the house with the light as no one can see what is going on behind where the lights are.

We always used to wear a reflective band over our coats in the winter months, it's odd that no-one does that any more.

my kids used to take them off when they were out of sight.

Sadly it usually always is the case.

We have them and they seem fine. Quite good in fact. I no longer need a light over my front door because the new street lamps do a better job than the old ones.

I much prefer the white lights to the orange ones. The orange ones give off a horrible light. The white light has a lovely natural look to it when you see everything that the light hits. Unfortunately though, the white lights round here aren't turned up enough and therefore don't light up much of everything below them.

There's nonneed for that these days. I bought a couple of strings of LED Christmas tree lights a week or two back, to replace the two (out of four) strings tungsten filament bulbs that had failed. The tungsten filament and "warm white" LED lights are indistinguishable once you're far enough away that the shape isn't obvious. So it would seem that it's not a [i]technical[/b] limitation that leads to the use of "blue-tinted" LEDs.

Oddly enough, the colour temperature of the "cool white" LEDs is closer to natural lighting than the "warm white" LEDs are. It's just that, after dark, our perceptions change.

I'm finding it much harder to drive at night than I used to and think it's mainly due to the new led lights. Our lights are so dim that I get dazzled by oncoming traffic in the town, something which only used to be a problem on country roads. I've had a few scares when I've become aware of someone on the road at the last minute. I'm all right just walking about but in the car it's a different story.

There's some near me at a zebra crossing. You can't see shit until you're about two feet from it.

The blue lights are nowhere near natural lighting. Those blue lights could be well above 10,000kelvin as the warm white LEDs are closer to 5000 - 4000kelvin.

I do have lights that are guaranteed 6500kelvin that are daylight bulbs. They are CCFL and look nothing like these street lights.
Looks like this.
http://abload.de/img/img_20160407_041605z7puu.jpg
http://abload.de/img/img_20160407_041416mkrno.jpg


Our street lights look nothing like this. http://emfsafetynetwork.org/wp-conte...b2e4eef6_z.jpg

Ours aren't far from: https://userscontent2.emaze.com/imag...95d65df8bdjpeg

Blue tinted ones are probably cheaper though.

These new lights are awful! The pavements are now extremely dark. The Council does not bother to sweep the leaves away. Mud and rain water block the drains. Darkness makes it impossible to cross the roads properly without getting wet or muddy. We used to have well lit streets. Now it is terrible.

Everything about the council is cheap.



Anytime ours swept the road they fired it back out the top. Haven't seen a street sweeper in my street in 6 months. Weeds and moss everywhere and everything overgrown. Had to put weed killer out on my oart if the pavement.

led lamps is where i make my living
warm white is roughly 3000K
cool white is 4000k there or there abouts
Daylight is 6000k

Led lighting is here to stay. all incandescent lamps are now oboslete and short of few diy/hardware stores you chouldnt be seeing much of them anymore
Halogen lamps are on the chopping block (was supposed to be the end of 2017 but has been put back to 2018 )

the soduim/metal halide/mercury lamps that were/are used i street lighting are highly inefficient and highly toxic as are fluorescent

LED is a relativity new technology in terms of lighting they have made led versions of the most popular forms of light (GU10 240v lamps/ GLS/candles/golf balls ) and the costs are dropping as they make more and new ways of creating higher yields of workable LEDs

marks my words there will be a time where every lamp you buy/every light fitting you ever buy will be LED

nope they arent ... no cost difference whatsoever

is this street, domestic or both?

I've seen street sweepers. They are incompetent. Their eyes must be awfully poor as they leave items behind. I feel I should mention this.