how many streetlights have your council turned off

[biggs682]

our cul de sac has lost over 75% of its street lights in local councils latest money saving idea

and all roads are effected in 1 way or the other .

 

[Zoiders]

My local council just rely on vandalism and general neglect to keep the lighting budget down.

 

[marinyork]

I think it's a really good idea on the whole. In the past street lights used to go out late at night in various areas, it is just that people have long forgotten this.

My council is supposedly going down the dimming route, but this will probably take quite a long time.

That said doing a lot of night time cycling, the same roads tend to have total black outs again and again and again and again. It's fairly predictable where large blackouts will be.

 

[Archie_tect]

None here. but I'm asleep so not sure if they go off late at night.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

They're switched off along most of the M5 between midnight and 5am every night.

 

[Andy in Sig]

Towns and cities everywhere could perhaps learn something from what has been done in some residential areas of Koblenz.

The street lights go out at night (around 11 pm if I remember rightly) but there are buttons on the lamps so if somebody needs to take the dog out late at night or if they are coming home from the pub etc. they can hit the button and the lights go on for 15 mins. Apparently it saves a fair bit of electricity and also cuts down light pollution etc.

 

[Seigi]

I like that idea of having buttons on the lamps to turn them on for 15 mins, it seems like a nice idea as it allows people who need to the light to have it. Like all the lights in the immediate area switch on for 15 mins?

 

[TVC]

Some of ours go out after midnight, seems sensible to me.

 

[asterix]

Towns and cities everywhere could perhaps learn something from what has been done in some residential areas of Koblenz.

The street lights go out at night (around 11 pm if I remember rightly) but there are buttons on the lamps so if somebody needs to take the dog out late at night or if they are coming home from the pub etc. they can hit the button and the lights go on for 15 mins. Apparently it saves a fair bit of electricity and also cuts down light pollution etc.

That is far too civilized. Anyway if it it was introduced in the UK they would add a facility for demanding your credit card details before handing out free 'lecky.

 

[vernon]

Ours have not been turned off but they have been replaced by more efficient downlighters.

 

[skudupnorth]

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We're getting a lot of LED street lights.
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We've just got them on our road,they are brilliant ! Just like daylight and they do not up-light.

 

[Paulus]

I travel through various Boroughs on the way to work, but I think that Harrow are definately dimming the lights. There is not that bright look to the lights at night time. Either that or my eyesight is going.

 

[vernon]

We've just got them on our road, they are brilliant ! Just like daylight and they do not up-light.

I hope they are, they'd be useless if they were dull.

 

[stargazer]

Most of ours have been turned off 00:00 to 05:00 (GMT) since April including, I'm pleased to say, two that shine into my garden and another that shines into my bedroom window. The only ones left on are on main roads and junctions, and at crime hotspots (where the existing lights are clearly doing a lot of good [not]).

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Criminals are pretty keen on street lights being switched off at night.
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No, criminals are pretty keen on houses being empty or occupants being asleep, and doors and windows open or poorly locked, at any time of day or night. In areas where lights are switched off at night crime is generally seen to fall. In our brightly lit towns and cities criminals can work at night under taxpayer funded, council maintained worklights streetlights.

 

[Glow worm]

No, criminals are pretty keen on houses being empty or occupants being asleep, and doors and windows open or poorly locked, at any time of day or night. In areas where lights are switched off at night crime is generally seen to fall. In our brightly lit towns and cities criminals can work at night under taxpayer funded, council maintained worklights streetlights.

True - and in some cases criminals can lurk in the deeper shadow cast by powerful lights such as those insecurity lights that shine for miles from folk's houses and businesses. There's loads on this at the Campaign for Dark Skies site Here

Sadly our county council here (Cambs) is run by useless old men, who still think it's a good idea to piss £ up the wall and prevent us from seeing the stars, by leaving all the lights on all night. And we have more of the damn things than any other county- complete madness. My village is lit up like an orange Las Vegas at night. Some of the older lights do go out when you give them a good shake though!