Fears over street light cut-backs
 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11209143

I can see this being a useful way of cutting costs but only if care is taken over where it is done.What do you think?

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Those who stargaze should be pleased. Otherwise if this is just in the wee small hours of the night, very few will even notice.

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I think its a great idea. But I'm not too sure about this Great British Compromise:

:) An added bonus!

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Why not just switch off every other one? 50% savings at a stroke and still enough light to find your way.

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I wish they'd turn off the one outside of our window!!! Shines directly in on the bed.. Gonna have to deal with it myself soon

:sniper:

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Our local council decided to save money by fitting low-energy lamps to the street lighting.

But since the current units didn't fit the bulbs they achieved this by replacing every street lamp on all the city's main roads.

Erm, savings?

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All it would take is a simple shade device to make sure that the light doesn't go where it's not needed :rolleyes:

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My local council has recenting installed a lot of new lights in the borough, all appear to have deflectors pushing the light down onto the road. I think this is the new standard for street lights, but of course will cost money to replace lights every where.

Also suugested that the traffic lights on the traffic islands should be switched off at night, don't know why they were installed in first place as caused more congestion.

If local councils are going to save money, perhaps a 50% cut in councillor allowances should be the first to be implemented.

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I was going to suggest the same thing. A lot of streets have very bright lights that cover a larger distance than the older ones for the same power requirements. 50% is a good start.

Maybe they could invest in LED lighting on the bases of the street lamps as markers for night time strollers?

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I believe the council has to take action on remedying this. The same thing happened at one of our old houses and they came round and put a small blanking plate on one side after our neighbour complained to stop it shining directly in. Mind you these were old style round topped lights not the standard shine down ones you see now.

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Depends how far apart they are.. Fine if they are every 20 metres apart. Not so good if they are 100 metres apart.

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It would require a major investment, but what about motion sensitive lights? The only slight problem I can see is the fact that a cold streetlight can take up to 1 minute to warm up.

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Turning off street lights shouldn't result in any problems at all. -

That is always assuming that every road user will fully obey the Highway Code. and that any pedestrains will be totally safe walking pitch black streets in the wee hours.:erm:

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The way I look at it is that £700,000 is a few jobs saved across the boroughs.

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Or - One new Council Chief Exec, plus a couple of spin doctors. The residule would go toward giving 'golden handshakes' to the standing down Chief Exec and spin doctors. The remainder, will of course come out of front line services.

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Cynic!:p:

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except a field day for vandals, car thieves and burglars !!