Let there be light: Edmonton continues to switch street lamps to LEDs

The colour of Edmonton’s nighttime streetscapes is changing.
The traditional yellowish-orange glow from street lights is gradually being replaced by the bluish-white light of LED fixtures.
It’s a switch the city started in 2011, after a pilot project in 2010.
To date, 44,800 of Edmonton’s 117,400 streetlights have been switched, Vlado Cicovski, Edmonton’s senior streetlight engineer, said Monday.
The LEDs use 40 to 60 per cent less electricity than the old high-pressure s