Light Bulbs and Protected Bike Lanes
Setting the Stage The light in our closet burned out the other day. My wife, Irene, and I live at Dockside Green in the City of Victoria, British Columbia. Dockside was designed as an environmentally conscious development in the mid 2000's. For more information on what Dockside aspired to be, see ( Benfield, 2011 ). For the purposes of this post, though, all that matters is that Dockside is full of cutting edge 2007 vintage technology, and that includes fluorescent light bulbs with GU24 lamp fittings . GU24 lamp fittings use a bayonet mount and were designed for energy efficient bulbs. In the mid-2000's they were the future, and were required for California Energy Code and US ENERGY STAR compliance. That requirement was dropped in 2017. Why does that matter? It matters because when Irene said "Jim, the light in our closet is burned out" I got the ladder, accessed the fixture, removed the bulb, and exclaimed "Oh! A GU24 bulb! I'll run out and get an LED repl...