Street Lights: Make Your Voice Heard

Please forward RMA's Testimony on Street Lights to City Council members and your friends.
RMA's position is informed by experts at the Street Light Task Force and the Dark Sky Association. You can help save the historic character of Embassy Row (ie no bright 3000 Kelvin lights) and improve future lighting for the whole city. 

RMA's Feb 21 Tour of Street Lights drew many from Dupont Circle and elsewhere.
On our tour slideshow see for yourself the differences in present lights (amber, HPS) versus the very bright blue-white LED lights (some at 4000K )which the Department of Transportation is already installing.

Many people from Ward 2 and Ward 3 are joining the ranks of residents trying to make the nation's capital do better than some other cities (Milan, Italy). Other cities are models (Phoenix, AZ) How Washington builds out its new lighting infrastructure in the next 15 years will be decided soon!

Join Our Street Light Tour Wednesday Evening

Restore Mass Ave is advocating for new fixtures and bulbs that are healthful and preserve the historic character of streets and avenues.  Here's our tour map.

See for yourself which new lights are too bright and too blue. Same may be needlessly high, so trees must be cut out for light to reach the street. Compare the old lights; they use too much power but give off soft color.

Our tour will be guided by experts from the DC Street Light Task Force, Delores Bushong and Bonnie Garrity.

New Date: Wed Feb. 21

Where: Start/finish at Embassy Row Hotel, 2015 Massachusetts Ave NW
Times: 6:15pm     Gather
             6:30pm     Start walk eastward  
             7:45 pm    Happy Hour drinks and discussion at Embassy Row Hotel  "Station"

       The Street Light Task Force has engaged dozens of local civic groups and ANCs to push for new energy- saving streetlights that are BEST for alleys, streets and avenues.

      Why is Restore Mass Ave concerned? Why now? We want healthful, appropriate lighting to save our Grand Avenue's character and trees. RMA seeks to influence which LED lights the Department of Transportation will choose for Embassy Row: lighting will be replaced as part of the big Massachusetts Avenue Rehabilitation Project (MARP).

     But street lights on ALL avenues, residential streets and commercial venues will be impacted by DDOT's lighting choices.  Walk with us, see for yourself and learn how to make your voice heard!

     Tour contact/RSVP lindsey.k.larson@gmail.com    Follow us on Twitter  @restoremassave