Burnaby completed its plan to replace 11,600 street lights with LEDs, Vancouver is at start of its plan to replace 44,000 lights with LEDs.
Cost savings were also a big driver for the City of Vancouver’s replacement plan, launched last October, to replace its 55,000 outdoor lights starting with a $26 million program to switch-out 44,000 street lights by 2026.Tests run by Vancouver in select locations since 2015 have shown a 46 per cent reduction in traffic collisions and a 27 per cent decline in pedestrian strikes at intersections where LED lights have been used.
“Bottom line, the advent of LEDs in street lighting is just fantastic news,” said Lorne Whitehead, a lighting expert and physics professor at the University of B.C. “They do render colours well. A person illuminated by a high quality LED street lamp looks human. “We’ve had lights up since installation in 2015, eight years, and we haven’t touched a light on the lot,” Metcalfe said.
Several major cities throughout North America suffered the same problem, but the manufacturer in Vancouver’s case has committed to replacing all 350 of its lights under warranty, though supply chain problems have delayed some of the work, Mital said.
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