Bright lights in the big city of Windsor may darken soon as staff are about to decide on the brightness of the advertising signs.
The staff have been working on the problem for three years.
Some people complain that the LED light is very bright at night, which distracts the driver.
Now, there is no limit to how bright the Windsor LED logo is.
City planner Adam Coates of Windsor City Planning Department proposed to limit the brightness, similar to the practice of other cities across the country.
Next week, a city council will consider a proposal to limit the brightness to 500 nits, which is only a small part of the capabilities of these signs.
Nit is a unit of luminous intensity equal to a Candela-
Or standard candles.
Per square meter
Both the mayor and the Windsor Police Department say the security issue is a clear sign.
Since Windsor Star installed a huge LED logo around the corner of Ouellette and University Avenue in 2012, the city has been paying closer attention to the LED brightness, Coates said.
"We have been watching for three months --
"Basically how it affects road safety and the annual pilot program of the surrounding residents," Coates said . ".
"So, let's look at the conversion between brightness, message duration, animation, messages.
"The big sign of Windsor Star has the ability to output 8,000 nits, but it's not clear how much it's launching yet.
The Windsor Police Department said that when a sign is brighter than any other light source, it may distract the driver, which is no different from texting.
"I think the brightness is very heavy.
I don't think lowering it reduces the ability of symbols to be read and observed, but it doesn't seem to me to distract it, "Barry hobyn, the director of planning and physical resources at the Windsor Police Station spoke about the Windsor Star.
"This is a pedestrian-intensive area --
Vehicle interaction.
Therefore, we must pay attention to both pedestrian distraction and driver distraction, not just driver.
So a big sign is one of them, and it's no different from texting.
"When Mayor Drew Dilken served as a member of parliament in 2013, he started calling for restrictions after a close call at the southern end of the city.
"I actually had a personal experience where I drove along Duger Avenue and installed two new digital lighting signs that flashed almost simultaneously to white.
When I was driving at night, it blinded my eyes for the time being, "recalls Dilken.
"So I think, 'Geeze, we have to have some reasonable restrictions here to make sure that the driver is able to drive safely when passing these signs.
"The urban planning department will study the proposal next week and report it to the Council.