We recently had a very heavy wet snow fall.
Last year the public works department had converted the traffic signals to LED's
Due to the fact that LED's do not generate heat like normal incandescent bulbs, the stop lights were covered with snow, which did not melt, causing many traffic accidents.
Now crews must be sent out with scrapers on a pole to clear the lenses of all the stop lights.
Figuring the cost of the accidents and the extra man hours doing the clearing, it looks like going green in this case was a bad idea.
Last year the public works department had converted the traffic signals to LED's
Due to the fact that LED's do not generate heat like normal incandescent bulbs, the stop lights were covered with snow, which did not melt, causing many traffic accidents.
Now crews must be sent out with scrapers on a pole to clear the lenses of all the stop lights.
Figuring the cost of the accidents and the extra man hours doing the clearing, it looks like going green in this case was a bad idea.