Sounds to me like a job for our Green city council members to take on. Light pollution has been shown to negatively impact public health and is a real problem in downtown neighborhoods and others where lighting up every nook and cranny has come to be seen as a necessary safety measure.
Folks, the darkness is good for you. Aside from the aesthetic concerns below, there are other concerns. Some neighborhood lights are so bright that even curtains, blinds, and blanket thrown over the window combined are insufficient to keep the light from penetrating a bedroom window. It is not as healthy for people to sleep under lighting. How we balance these concerns for lighting for safety with those that are prompted by light pollution, I don't know. I do know that there others who have done extensive work in studying this issue. David Strand Loring Park --- Jay Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think white strobe lights on top of radio > antennae, phone towers and > skyscrapers are ugly visual air pollution > > And I want to know if the further spread of white > strobe lights in > Minneapolis can be stopped. > > I remember growing up near a set of tall radio > towers protected with > traditional red dimmer lighting. To me the gentle > fading on and off of > red lights was peaceful, tranquil, even beautiful > > But I find these white strobe lights to be terrible > visual gashes on the > nighttime sky. > > And they are gradually encroaching here in > Minneapolis. > > An obnoxious strobe light on the garbage burner > ruins an otherwise > beautiful view of the downtown from north > Minneapolis. > > A few have sprung up on the downtown skyscrapers. > > And KSTP has a nasty string of strobe lights > stabbing the sky. > Mercifully, they usually switch to red dimmer lights > at night. > > Believe me, it can get a lot worse. > > Lubbock, Texas has so many white strobe lights that > I thought I was > trapped in a giant carnivorous disco ball. > > Des Moines has dozens of transmittor antennae packed > together at one > site, all blasting their strobe lighting into the > night sky. It seemed > like a monstrous and macabre Christmas display. > > And in Cheyenne, Wyoming, a religious radio station > has such powerful > strobe lights on its antenna that I think it is > lighting up a landing > pad for the Second Coming. > > Bryant resident Paul Robinson used to work for the > Medina town > government. He tells me that Medina law prohibits > white strobe lighting > on towers, and the one tower in the town has red > lighting. > > Can a law like this be passed in Minneapolis, that > prohibits white > strobe lighting and requires red dimmer lighting on > towers and > buildings? > > Do others also find this white strobe lighting > ghastly? Or am I the only > one who is bothered by it? > > Why has the trend switched from red dimmer lights to > white strobe > lights? Are we really having a rash of color-blind > pilots hitting (at > least accidentally) towers with red dimmer lighting? > or is it simply > cost? Is white strobe lighting required by law? > > HELP! > > Jay Clark > Cooper > _______________________________________ > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic > Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: > http://e-democracy.org/mpls __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
