Poughkeepsie: Another City Takes a Step Towards Sustainability
Walkway to be lit with over 81,000 LED lights- The lights get a test run
POUGHKEEPSIE – When the lights are turned on at the Walkway Over the Hudson next weekend, they will be the latest addition to the engineering marvel. The new lights, which are energy efficient, will light the bridge for nighttime visitors.
The Walkway, the state’s latest park – a linear park that crosses the Hudson River from Highland to Poughkeepsie, will be lit by 81,215 LED lights designed by Andy Neal’s Poughkeepsie company, ANL.
“This is literally a mile and a quarter long, single set of tubes. It’s a one inch diameter tubular LED array that stretches from the Highland side to the Poughkeepsie side,” Neal said.
The lights were fabricated by people at the Mid-Hudson Workshop in Poughkeepsie. LEDs use 90 percent less energy than incandescent bulbs. The Walkway light components were made by Fala Technology at The Solar Energy Consortium in Kingston.
The $475,000 to pay for the lighting system was secured through Congress by Rep. Maurice Hinchey.
The Walkway, which opened last October, has drawn hundreds of thousands of visitors.
