What is it with Dunwoody [City Hall] and lights? First it was advocacy against light pollution. A noble effort, so we knew that wouldn't last long. Then came the LEDs. At the city's behest Ga Power replaced traditional sodium vapor lights, which are long lived and reliable, with LED lights that go into a flashing mode, screaming "replace me now" after a few years. The LEDs are not cheaper since replacement of perfectly good equipment allows Ga Power to recover the value of working street lights. What's better is that all this was known beforehand. Then came the village parkway. Those lights have always been flaky, randomly going on and off. The only time these lights operate correctly is during the day. Oh, and they were selected by the city.
Now we have odd pairings of a pole light and an overhead light at intersections. Some work, some don't.
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This is looking south on CD at the Knoll and the city-mandated overhead street light is further up CD on the same side. The illumination on CD itself is from pre-existing street lights on the west side of CD. This has always been a well lit area, not like, say, the east side of Roberts between Wintercreek and Austin where there are no lights on either side of Roberts, and arguably there should not be.
Some have conjectured that this light doesn't operate because the pre-existing lights, combined with the paired sister light, is so bright that the pole light is overwhelmed, confused, unable to distinguish night from day. Seems like someone well versed in this technology would have known this could happen. So, what out of touch bureaucrat issued the dictate to install this waste of money at this already well lit intersection? What was their motivation? Have they ever actually seen this intersection? Day or night?
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