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,