W atch out, there are giants among us. OK, not really.
But when I think of those megatall lightpoles that line the highways of Houston and Texas’ other big cities, they remind me of larger-than-life guardians, guiding millions of commuters home with their radiant (and massive) floodlights in the shape of a ring.
Texas actually helped pioneer these lighting systems as a solution for nighttime motorists on its ever-expanding highways. As early as the 1960s, San Antonio traffic experts were experimenting with these high-mast lightpoles, as they’re known, to keep drivers safe…