Residents can report their blue lights to have the bulb replaced with a non-defective light from the manufacturer by calling the city’s street lights division at 651-266-9777.

Most importantly, mishaps with purple streetlamps shouldn’t be used to vilify all LED lights, Seshadri says. “The materials that are normally used to make the phosphor are extremely stable ...

Schaumburg is among the places where the purple lights have appeared. The village plans to replace 117 such fixtures along Meacham and Irving Park roads over the next few weeks.

I have to admit, this week's What's Up With That? query truly had me stumped. But it turns out blue streetlights are explainable, if not ideal.

The indigo lights have spawned theories online about everything from vampires to vaccines, but the City of Vancouver says the LED street lights now shining purple are the result of a manufacturing ...

An FPL spokesperson explained that over time, some LED streetlights in FPL’s service area are emitting a violet or purple hue rather than the standard white light because of a manufacturer defect.

Purple street lights may seem strange, but they’re not harmful in any way. “It’s not a black light, it just changed the hue of the color, the filter is defective,” Satter said.

So far Lincoln Electric system has replaced 300 street lights that have turned the color. Which is just over 1% of the 27,000 LED lights it installed citywide from 2018 to 2019.

Gregg Bach, a spokesperson for Street PHX, said 1,200 of the purple lights started popping up a couple of months ago in the city. By Casey Torres Published : Apr. 24, 2023 at 8:50 PM MST | Updated ...