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Originally Posted by ThatDarnSacramentan
They might make streets safer, but they also make light pollution much worse.
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True, and that's the reason my hometown is moving the opposite way Chicago is (for about a decade, we've been upgrading existing white lighting to new orange LEDs).
This explains it:
http://ricemm.org/en/the-reserve/
But in areas where light pollution doesn't matter that much, most people obviously think white is superior to orange, otherwise places like Chicago would be replacing sodium lamps with orange LEDs.
Also, I find it amusing to call the reserve "international", as if special effort towards darkness was needed from the States of Maine and New Hampshire
(the parts that are next to it are virtually empty.)