LEDs Light Up LA Harbor Bridge
Jun 16, 2005 — TORRANCE, Calif., June 16 -- LA Mayor James Hahn threw the switch this week on a long-awaited enhancement to the Vincent Thomas Bridge, in San Pedro, Calif.: new blue LED lights, provided by LEDtronics Inc., along its suspension cables.
Funding, energy shortages, migrating birds and a pair of nesting peregrine falcons had all thwarted previous attempts to string lights across the mile-long span. But advances in lighting technology enabled the solution: LEDs, which were unavailable when the...