The Changing Glow Of D.C. As Streetlights Make The Switch To LEDs

By 2022, the District’s streets could look vastly different at night. D.C. is hoping to convert all 75,000 of its warm, yellow streetlights to cheaper, more energy-efficient LED bulbs. The conversion to the brighter streetlights would be the largest project in the region, although other localities, including Montgomery County and Takoma Park in Maryland and Fairfax County and Arlington in Virginia, have tested the technology.