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Tonight I finally made an after dark pass through the park where they replaced the sodium lights with LEDs. They did a shit job of it. The lights are ridiculously bright but have a very poor lateral beam width, so you alternate between being blinded and compete darkness. Also they picked 5000K LEDs when 3000K is pretty much standard for outdoor lighting aside from industrial lots. Manufacturers have many fixture variations with different optics, its just a matter of picking the right one from the catalog based on the ground you need to cover.
There is a nearby park run by a different level of government and their lighting is infinitely better. The light dims between light poles but no dark spots. In that park you can constantly seem the path surface even if you didn't have a headlight. I guess they had a measuring tape to see how far apart their poles were.
