New LED lights in city center divide opinion

The transition from the airy yellow airy of the old, energy-intensive bulbs to cooler, environmentally affable LEDs has caused mixed reactions successful Athens. On the fashionable pedestrian Delfon Street successful Exarchia, concern owners are proving to beryllium peculiarly inventive successful their effort to bounds the aggravated white airy from the caller fixtures, installing a integrative filter. Fans of the caller lights, however, see residents who accidental they heighten their consciousness of safety. “Visibility is overmuch better, you tin spot where you’re going connected the sidewalk, places that were astir invisible, bathed successful the acquainted orangish half-light, suddenly took connected signifier and shape,” says civilian technologist Vasso Simitzi, a nonmigratory of the cardinal Agios Meletios district. The astir vocal critics of chill lighting are the owners of restaurants successful areas where the caller fixtures person been installed. They judge that their strength is ‘blinding’ for their customers who similar a softer lighting, and tin so harm their business. [Nikos Kokkalias]