Why do street lights twinkle at night when you see them from a distance?

For pretty much the same reason that stars do. It's an optical illusion caused by the bending of light through a turbulent and hazy atmosphere. If the unevenly-heated air between you and the streetlights happens to contain a mix of smoke, dust and water vapor, then the churning particles and droplets will act like tiny mirrors, shadows and lenses.

This chaotic mix will distort the light rays passing through it, causing faraway light sources to appear to flicker or twinkle. As you move closer to the light, the number of photons reaching your eyes rapidly increases. This tends to average out the apparent intensity of the light, making the twinkling effect 'magically' disappear.

(This is also the same way ancient astronomers were able to tell planets from stars, by the way: the planets are close enough to Earth that it took a very turbulent sky indeed to make them appear to twinkle at all.).

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