Here's an example of the lights being installed in Davis, California.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/573364596290324798/
And that image showing the freeway in Los Angeles, it's over lit and definitely light pollution, white light onto white concrete - what where they thinking. They should know better. Even when the lighting is done well it can be a fail. The Corso strip in Manly is one of the brightest objects from the ISS around Sydney - you wouldn't think so from the ground.