hi randall, excellent set! this pic is my fave also. are you in the middle of the traffic here? not familiar with the area hehe.
based on your experiences are the skies bluer the deeper the night? 
Hey Ramir. Yep, I was at the edge of the "island" in between the roads.
The blue sky depends more on the illumination that night. The brighter the moon especially with a full moon phase and after the twilight hours where there is no more residual daylight, the sky turns electric blue in long exposures with the right whitebalance.