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According to the Iowa DOT, the lights aren’t intended to appear blue. The department installed LED lights with a white coating “a while ago,” Iowa DOT said in a Facebook post.

Now, that coating is flaking off, causing the lights to appear more blue or purple

  • Troy@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    4 months ago

    Same thing happened in Winnipeg. White coating failed early and entire streets were blue. Massive sunk cost issues to replace them.

  • Hawke@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    needed regular replacements

    So… no improvement with LED in this regard?

  • Tikiporch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    We are Iowa. We’re Iowa. Wereiowa.

    If I knew anything about Iowa, I could probably make a joke there.