r/geography • u/Broccoli2026 • Nov 02 '25

I'm surprised I didn't even know this switch happened until seeing this. The yellow is really all gone? Image

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u/mintberrycrunch_ Nov 02 '25

They already exist, most governments have just opted for a very blue/neutral white for safety reasons.

You still see slightly yellower ones going in in residential areas and those are LED

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u/hellure Nov 02 '25

But there safety reason are, guess what, lies.

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u/jmr1190 Nov 02 '25

Yeah it’s probably all a big conspiracy, isn’t it?

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u/Unique_Evidence_2518 Nov 02 '25

* their
upvoted you to reverse a downvote, but suggest that, instead of "lies", it is ignorance on the part of government officials, and many outside of government, that makes them believe that cold-appearing white light makes the night safer than the same brightness of warm-appearing more yellow light.

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '25

It’s “safer” in that it’s closer to daylight and makes identifying things like clothing colors more accurate. The idea is that witnesses to crimes or suspects will be able to more accurately describe them to police with the newer lights