orange? When they use to be white like house lights years ago.
2007-11-09 17:10:54 · 19 answers · asked by misskitti7® 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
easier to see in the fog
2007-11-09 17:21:18 · answer #1 · answered by Poodle 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
They used to be orange down our streets about 10 years ago, but now they change the lights to white, and they look much better now.
2007-11-09 23:22:10 · answer #2 · answered by Ben N 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it may be that white lights can dazzle when they are at a low level. I have noticed that some lights are almost blue and am told the the colour is in fact white. I must be getting old because that confuses me.
Another issue is the waste of energy caused by light reflection upwards which in a large city such as my own I can not really see the stars at night
2007-11-10 03:09:09 · answer #3 · answered by Scouse 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They used to use Mercury Vapour lamps, which are white but not like household lamps which are tungsten and more golden in colour.
Before that they used fluorescent tubes in a lot of streets but they've all gone now......
These days a lot of new lights use high pressure sodium lamps (son) which are orange but have a more golden peachy colour than the older low pressure (sox) lamps which are monochromatic yellow.
Older lanterns that used to run mercury have been converted to sodium or replaced with a whole new lantern.
BUT......... they are once again putting white lamps in a fair few new lamps but this time they're metal halide lamps which are similar to mercury in colour. So white light is returning to the streets.
2007-11-09 22:14:42 · answer #4 · answered by CeeO 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Would settle for orange or white street lights,i have none in my village, if you go out after 6pm these winter months you have to take a torch, "bloody dangerouse" when the ice has formed, cant wait for the people to put the chrismas trees in the windows,at least you can see a little....!!!
2007-11-10 01:38:17 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
orange lights were introduced during the war, something to do with being less visible from the sky and also cheaper to run.
omg! couldnt remember how i knew this so just been on wikepedia wher i found a forum for street light enthusiasts! how sad is that!lol!
2007-11-09 19:53:38 · answer #6 · answered by ginger 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What Street Lights?!
Where I live they are all Broke!
The Area is known as Darkside !
2007-11-09 20:05:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Motorways and trunks routes are controlled by way of the Highways organization/delivery Scotland on behalf of the government. highway's interior of a city council's barriers (aside from motorways and trunk routes) are controlled by way of the city council. private roads are controlled by way of the owner. All different roads are controlled by way of the county council.
2016-12-16 04:06:56 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Test' showed that visibility is improved by this colour of bulb, also it uses less energy than the "normal" bulbs, kind of like the energy saving ones you can get for your home..
2007-11-09 19:55:04 · answer #9 · answered by John W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To counteract the effect of the smog we use to have.
French use to have them fitted on cars too.
2007-11-09 21:35:00 · answer #10 · answered by The Rugby Player 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋