Your states street lighting

[PNWRoadgeek]

I was thinking about this today, something that doesn't really get talked about much is street lighting, and how it looks or how it works. Y'know.

How nice do you think your states street lighting in is?(Specifically on how it looks and how's the quality), mainly on freeways but major highways can come into the equation as well.

I think Oregon's is kind of so-so, they take a lot of their street lighting from California in terms of design and touch it up a little bit. Lighting wise I think it's great, driving at night doesn't really cause any issues.

[ChiMilNet]

I will comment on states I have lived in or spent a significant amount of time in:

Illinois - It's sort of a tale of three DOT standards:
IDOT District 1 (Chicago Area) - Generally and historically well lit roads and highways. Uses aluminum poles (truss and some davit style), which is good with harsh Chicago winters. A little slow to upgrade to LED.
IDOT Downstate (Outside Chicago) - Generally does an decent job in most cast cases with lighting, but uses cheaper materials in spots and less frequent lighting at interchanges with exceptions in District 8 (Metro East), where newer installations tend to resemble those in D1. Still OK, but D1 does a better job.
Illinois Tollway (ISTHA) - By far the best of the agencies in Illinois. Well lit up tollways, especially newer construction (lighting down the middle), fully converted to LED lighting, uses high quality aluminum truss poles, modern look.

Missouri (MODOT) - Inconsistent lighting, cheap looking and rather ugly steel poles, odd positioning of lighting poles, big contrast between some municipalities and MODOT (see KC Metro). Overall, needs to use better materials and better standards

Florida (FDOT) - One of the best State DOTs for lighting. Uses modern looking aluminum truss poles, consistently lit up interchanges, and well maintained. A little delayed on updating to LED in some spots, but overall a good example for other states to follow.

Georgia (GDOT) - Frustrating lack of lighting in spots where there should be lighting (see I-285). Georgia has a very questionable policy of making municipalities pay for maintenance of state highway lighting (even Interstates). This has resulted in some maintenance issues, such as a stretch of I-75 in Cobb County. The materials are hit or miss in quality and appearance, when actually installed. Decent pavement quality, poor lighting.

Virginia (VDOT) - Some of the same frustrations as Georgia except with inferior road quality. I-85 heading North into VA can be very dark the whole distance.

[SkyPesos]

I've seen 3 main lighting styles on Ohio's Interstates. Not sure what they're actually called though.

1. Generic median poles with an "arm" towards each side
2. C/handle shaped
3. High-mast