In Vancouver, more than 100 blue or purple street lights have been reported to the city — the result of a manufacturing defect involving a coating on the light.

The replacement of the defective LED street lights comes simultaneously as a major city project. Over the next several years, Kansas City leaders plan to replace about 90,000 street lights with LEDs.

There's disagreement about what hue the street lights currently are in parts of downtown Vancouver, but they're definitely not white. Perhaps "light blue," "definitely purple,'' or "black light-ish" — ...