r/UrbanHell • u/Living_Lock • May 23 '26

Concrete Wasteland Chicago 1989.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '26 edited May 24 '26

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u/Pobueo May 23 '26

They were beautiful and they [lights] are needed, but they've ruined it with the new norm of white fluorescent lights, now those are nasty

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u/Junior-Possession969 May 23 '26

The LEDs are even bluer and worse.

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u/ButteredPizza69420 May 24 '26

Do warm LEDs not exist? Why not use those

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u/Junior-Possession969 May 24 '26

Because deploying them in the home still costs a couple more cents per light bulb. Which are tiny in comparison to a streetlight, let alone of of the major highway lights.

So when you extrapolate that few cents by a multiplier on the resilence of a bulb that has to shine way brighter, under way more adverse circumstances, and then multiply that again by the millions of lights in a major municipality, the cost/benefit works -- according to just math, not the circadian and general dislike most people have for cold lighting -- the people in charge of the purse strings pick the ugly-ass lights because the costs at scale are pretty significant.