Considerations of safe street lighting will beg the question, “safe for whom?” Creating safe street lighting for pedestrians will involve different factors than making streets safe for motorists. Businesses and street residents will have their own ideas of what constitutes safe street lighting, as will city managers who are charged with using taxpayer dollars to pay for safe street lighting.

Regardless of what factors are considered, municipalities around the world, including Los Angeles, Chicago, Calgary, Adelaide, and Copenhagen, have concluded that  LED lighting has the most utility and versatility for all safe street lighting considerations. As with many transitions to new technologies, some of these cities have needed to make adjustments to reduce glare and excessive brightness from some early generations of LEDs, but LED manufacturers have responded to these concerns with even better street lighting that reduces sleep-preventing glare and that provides the safest conditions for everyone.