Streetlight LED Conversion

[ijmorlan]

Could be that the photocells are just really sensitive? Walking along Spadina the other night right around dusk a similar thing happened all the lights within about 100m in either direction came on, but then went off very quickly, but that happened to correspond with some clouds moving brisk out of the way of the setting sun so it got brighter again momentarily.

Could the lights along the spur just have been tricked by the lights from the train momentarily?

Unlikely. If they aren’t networked, they will all have slightly different thresholds and so will not respond precisely equally to a change in illumination. There will always be some non-synchrony in when they turn the lights on or off.