#streetlights — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #streetlights, aggregated by home.social.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #SteveLamacq
Streetlights:
🎵 Silver Liningshttps://thestreetlightsmanchester.bandcamp.com/track/silver-linings
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Garden District residents seek answers after Pima Street safety project stalls https://www.allforgardening.com/1826893/garden-district-residents-seek-answers-after-pima-street-safety-project-stalls/ #garden #GardenDistrict #Roads #Sidewalks #streetlights #streets #TransportationAndMobility
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La Porte Massillon
Hyères, French Riviera
At NightThanks to the garbage truck for the circular lights! 😄
#night #cityscapes #square #nighttime #oldcity #hyeres #france #frenchriviera #buildings #oldbuildings #streets #shops #shopfronts #pavement #streetlights
#photography #photo #cityscapephotography #urbanphotographu #blackandwhitephotography #bnwphotography #monochromephotography
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@ajsadauskas Here's a nerdy little sidenote some of you folks might find interesting.
Notice how the light pole in the photo is also being used to carry a Parramatta city council banner (in this case, celebrating Easter)?
Notice as well various censors and pieces of comms equipment are attached to the pole? And also, near the bottom, a flower bed?
If you'll look closely, you'll notice there's a groove down the side of the pole. And the various things on it are attached with standard mountings? (So the light at the top, for example, isn't welded in place. It's attached with a mounting.)
What you're looking at is a Standards Australia SA TS 5386:2024 multifunction pole. ( https://www.standards.org.au/standards-catalogue/standard-details?designation=sa-ts-5386-2024 )
This design is less prevalent in other states, but they're everywhere in New South Wales.
Some background from the design studio that created this design:
"The award winning HUB Multi-Function Pole System combines multiple street pole functions onto one beautifully designed structural urban element.
"Invented by 4design, The HUB MFP System is a fully modular system that can be adapted to the needs of any modern city through a variety of size of pole and associated fixtures.
"The patented system combines a simple elegant pole with a universal mounting system that allows the device to expand to accommodate Traffic Lights, Signage, communications systems etc. Developed in Australia, the HUB Pole is now a globally respected Multi Function Pole System."
https://www.4design.com.au/project/multi-function-pole-street-equipment/
Some more background info from the NSW State Government Movement & Place website:
"Adopt a multi-function pole system in urban areas, where many single-use poles and structures for signs, traffic control signals, CCTV, flags and lighting can be rationalised to a single, modular system pole reducing clutter and enabling other streetscape improvements.
"Benefits
* Reduces clutter by combining several posts, poles and structural supports into a single element
* Is a modular system, allowing a single product range to be used as a unifying element in an urban area
*Allows additional items, upgraded technology or functions to be installed on the pole over time, reducing the need to dig up paving or planting beds
"Considerations
* Will normally not be maintained by the electricity authority and be treated as a private pole
* Structural footings, installation requirements and connections to power, telecommunications etc may be complex
* Not all proprietary systems are frangible and suitable for higher-speed environments"
https://www.movementandplace.nsw.gov.au/standards/design-solutions/multi-function-poles
#Urbanism #UrbanPlanning #architecture #technology #utilities #StreetLights #design #engineering #cities #Australia #NSW #tech #Parramatta -
Los Angeles Wave: Mayor plans to install 60,000 solar-powered street lights. “Mayor Karen Bass signed a new executive order March 25 codifying a partnership between the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and the Bureau of Street Lighting to install 60,000 solar-powered street lights over the next two years.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/31/los-angeles-wave-mayor-plans-to-install-60000-solar-powered-street-lights/ -
Strassenlampen Von links nach rechts:
König & Bauer, Kötizer Strasse, Altnaundorf, Dorfteich -
road trip
AI Impressionism style#Road #Highway #Night #Streetlights #Motion #Longexposure #Landscape #Mountains #Roadtrip #Minimal #Scenic
#Img2img #AiArt #AiArtists #AiArtCommunity #StableDiffusion #AiImpressionismwant? have, at home: https://aieris.art/featured/road-trip-eris-and-ai.html
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the exceedingly ultra clear pool
#Villa #Seaside #Ocean #Pool #Facade #Stucco #Wooden #Arched #StreetLights #Tiles #Sunny #Img2img #AiArt #AiArtists #AiArtCommunity #StableDiffusion
in case of dull day, get: https://aieris.art/featured/the-exceedingly-ultra-clear-pool-eris-and-ai.html
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Hyères By Night – 47
Massillon Street
Hyères, French Riviera#streets #street #cobblestones #buildings #oldcity #christmasseason #streetlights #night #nightshots #architecture #hyeres #france #frenchriviera #lamps #blackandwhite
#photography #blackandwhitephotography #bnwhitephotography #streetphotography #photos #architecturephotography #urbanphotography
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Hyères By Night – 52
The Guillaume Tell Café
Hyères, French Riviera#café #brasserie #restaurant #streets #street #trees #customers #chairs #tables #windows #streetlights #night #nightshots #hyeres #france #frenchriviera #lamps #bar
#photography #colorphotography #streetphotography #photos #urbanphotography
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Hyères By Night – 51
Joseph Clotis Avenue
Hyères, French Riviera#people #streets #street #cobblestones #streetlights #night #nightshots #hyeres #france #frenchriviera #lamps #stringlights #pavement #cars
#photography #colorphotography #streetphotography #photos #urbanphotography
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Hyères By Night – 50
The Phenix Café
Hyères, French Riviera#café #brasserie #restaurant #streets #street #chairs #tables #window #streetlights #night #nightshots #hyeres #france #frenchriviera #lamps #stringlights
#photography #colorphotography #streetphotography #photos #urbanphotography
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Hyères By Night – 49
The Guillaume Tell Café
Hyères, French Riviera#café #brasserie #restaurant #streets #street #chairs #tables #window #streetlights #night #nightshots #hyeres #france #frenchriviera #lamps
#photography #colorphotography #streetphotography #photos #urbanphotography
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Hyères By Night – 48
Limans Street
Hyères, French Riviera#streets #street #stringlight #cafe #restaurant #cobblestones #buildings #oldcity #christmasseason #streetlights #night #nightshots #architecture #hyeres #france #frenchriviera #lamps
#photography #colorphotography #streetphotography #photos #architecturephotography #urbanphotography
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Hyères By Night – 47
Massillon Street
Hyères, French Riviera#streets #street #cobblestones #buildings #oldcity #christmasseason #streetlights #night #nightshots #architecture #hyeres #france #frenchriviera #lamps
#photography #colorphotography #streetphotography #photos #architecturephotography #urbanphotography
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Hyères By Night – 46
The Massillon Doorway
Hyères, French Riviera#square #cobblestones #buildings #arches #doorway #door #streetlights #night #nightshots #architecture #hyeres #france #frenchriviera #walkway #plants #lamps #archway
#photography #blackandwhitephotography #bnwphotography #streetphotography #photos #architecturephotography #urbanphotography
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keadamander (@[email protected])
https://pixelfed.social/p/keadamander/838779116030755384
> Exit to Donau City #photography #ttartisan #ttartisan_35mm_f14 #cityscape #urbanexploration #vienna #austria #donauturm #architecturephotography #roadtrip #highwayphotography #modernlandscape #streetlights #minimalcity #urbanskyline #infrastructure #citystreets #blueskyvibes #roadperspective #travelgram #cityview #asphaltstories #skylineviews
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Why #LightPollution is a solvable #environmental crisis
Excessive #OutdoorLighting is deadly to #animals and takes a toll on #HumanHealth and wellbeing, too. But when it comes to large-scale environmental problems, this one may be a relatively easy fix.
By Alissa Greenberg
Friday, April 1, 2022"In recent decades, lightbulbs made with #LEDs arrived, a revolution in energy efficiency with seemingly little downside. After all, an #LED bulb converts some 90% of the electricity it uses into light, whereas a conventional incandescent bulb only converts about 10%. And LED bulbs are touted as lasting up to 25 times longer.
"But the physics of LEDs make them fundamentally different from incandescents. While those traditional bulbs put out warm white light made of all colors mixed together, LEDs filter blue-rich light through a specialized phosphor material, producing light that appears white to the human eye but is still more blue-intense than incandescents’ light.
"But #BlueLight is also the most disruptive to our #nighttime environment because it mimics daylight, disrupting the hormone production and sleep cycles of both animals and humans.
"#Melatonin, one of those hormones, helps the immune system destroy renegade cells dividing out of control. That can lead to other health issues, including heightened rates of #cancer. And, 'we’re not the only ones who produce melatonin,' says Mario Motta, a cardiologist and trustee of the American Medical Association. Even amoebae produce melatonin'—meaning even amoebae might be vulnerable to light at night.
"The impacts of light pollution are evident everywhere from human health to astronomy research, but they come into particular focus in the recent phenomenon of global species #dieoffs. Between 100 million and a billion birds die every year due to light pollution, according to Massachusetts IDA chapter president James Lowenthal. New York City recently dealt with a huge die-off, 'with flocks of #MigratoryBirds slamming into buildings,' says Sarah Bois, an ecologist at the island’s Linda Loring Nature Foundation and a member of Nantucket Lights. 'They’re attracted to light.' A 2015 study at New York’s 9/11 'Tribute in Light'' installation showed an increase from 500 birds within half a kilometer of the light beams before they were turned on to 15,700 just minutes after.
"The issue is a double whammy for birds because they rely on #insects for food—and those populations are plummeting, with light pollution contributing significantly to the so-called "#InsectApocalypse.” By some estimates, one third of insects attracted to light sources at night die before morning, either due to exhaustion or because they get eaten. And according to a study in Germany, the number of insects in that country alone that die after being attracted to lights can number 100 billion or more in a single summer.
"Some starve to death searching for food that should appear bluer at twilight but is lit up amber under streetlights, says insect conservationist Avalon Owens, a doctoral candidate at Tufts University. Some are thrown off by light just the way we are, because of their #CircadianRhythms. #Pollinators whose schedules are altered by artificial light miss the #flowers they’re evolutionarily paired with, if the flowers naturally close and open with the warmth of the sun. And insects that rely on circadian rhythms for their yearly development don’t hibernate in time for winter and freeze to death.
"On #Nantucket, these phenomena are of particular concern because the island is home to a remarkably healthy population of northern long-eared #bats, which are endangered. Like many birds, the bats rely on insects for food and are easily dazzled by light, putting them in increasing jeopardy. Jack Dubinsky, director of the Maria Mitchell Aquarium on Nantucket, says he’s concerned that adding increasingly lit-up nights to the challenges of #ClimateChange, water quality, and #ecosystem collapse could put huge pressure on some already struggling species. 'The more curveballs we throw, the less likely they’ll be able to find their way,' he says.
Read more:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/light-pollution-led-nantucket-solutions/
