New bridge lighting effects tried out
The new bridge has lighting effects built in, and some drivers had a preview of the effects Tuesday night.
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SteveQ 09:58 on 2019-05-29 Permalink
Oh, I didn’t expect that. Seems like a nice lighting effect. This will make it even more beautiful.
Kevin 10:17 on 2019-05-29 Permalink
Ten years from now we’ll be condemning this, the Jacques Carter, and Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites as light pollution.
Blork 10:38 on 2019-05-29 Permalink
Nice! Probably not a light pollution problem because the lights don’t appear to be pointing up, and they are most likely LED and can be toned down easily.
While I’m not a fan of LED being used for street lighting, it has great potential for things like this, where it illuminates beautiful objects and landmarks without using much electricity. You see this on highway 132 in Longueuil, where the new passerelle that opened last year (the replacement for the one that was knocked down by a dump truck a few years ago) is nicely lit at night. In that particular case I think the lights are a bit too bright. It’s mostly indirect, but when you’re very close to it you get a brief blast of direct lighting. If the LEDs were half as bright it would have worked just as well without providing those harsh blasts if you look at it a certain way from a certain spot.
Faiz Imam 15:10 on 2019-05-29 Permalink
These are nice, but I’m really interested in what the lighting situation for the cable stay towers will be. That’s the most striking part of the bridge and needs to be lit correctly to look its best. A lot of different ways they could do it.