Streetlamps - How necessary are they?

[sparkythecat]

With all this talk of global warming and the price of electricity going up by 18-25%, why do we keep the streetlights on all night?.

I'm not on about the ones on crime ridden housing estates, but the ones on motorways and NSL roads for instance. Do they all really need to be on all night?



I think we should turn a few off. In theory it should help save the planet and reduce our tax bills.

[scared but happy]

I must admit it is a shock to the system when coming off the M25 onto the A12 and being plunged into darkness.
Why do bad crime areas have poor lighting but industrial estates glow like a xmas tree? I would have thought life was more important than property?

[c c]

If they ever come to my village I'll move out.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Sparky, my guess is you weren't around in the 70s when we regularly had no street lights. (or feck all else come to that) It was awful!

Also, when you travel along the M1 for example, the sections without lights are bleedin' crap compared to those with.

[nervous]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Sparky, my guess is you weren't around in the 70s when we regularly had no street lights. (or feck all else come to that) It was awful!

bodies in the street etc...

[Sciroccology]

scared but happy said:

I would have thought life was more important than property?

Not these days

[sparkythecat]

los angeles said:

Completely necessary to spot cyclists without lights, pedestrians not wearing anything white, stray dogs and cats, objects lying in the road such as drunks, and car jackers filing their nails at the junction as they await the arrival of your car in the pitch dark!

Cyclists, pedestrians and animals are all banned from the motorway and you're harly likely to encounter the Bloods or the Crips at Spaghetti or Scotch Corner, at 2am, so why the need for all the illumination?

[blaineuk]

think the system in the isle of man is good. lights are turned of a midnight and come back on around 7 am.

[sparkythecat]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Sparky, my guess is you weren't around in the 70s when we regularly had no street lights. (or feck all else come to that) It was awful! Also, when you travel along the M1 for example, the sections without lights are bleedin' crap compared to those with.

I'm not talking about plunging the whole of Britain into total darkness like the miners did then. I'm just on about turning a few lights off.

Todays cars have halogen, and xenon bulbs and HID ( whatever that is). In the 70's you had cars with dynamos, candescent lights of 1 candlepower and lucas electrical systems. No wonder it seemed dark.

[Lois]

maybe from 11-5 or something the could turn many off which aren't in areasa of huigh crimb.

[john75]

Street lights are a major problem for like of Patrick Moore.

Also I remember reading some where about a street light that fell on someone killing them the cause was metal fatigue caused by dog pee.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

anonymous said:

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Trouble is, the huigh crimb would probably move in.

[Matthew C]

What about turning every other lamp off when the traffic density is low? Half the electricity used, and still plenty of light.

[Lois]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

anonymous said: [redacted] Trouble is, the huigh crimb would probably move in.

u tali tthe pish?!!! cheaky

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

anonymous said:

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On the vino again Lois?

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anonymous said:

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Worse than mine sometimes, my mind tells me that she has been drinkin since 7am ey Lois

[Lois]

nooooo, ok maybe a botyle!!

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[mattley]

Necessary or just very useful?

Badly designed certainly, the waste upsets me, but gennerally a good thing IMO.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

I bet all the tvs on standby, and unused pcs left on burn up more leccy.

[xiphias]

anonymous said:

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HOW MANY EDITS? And she still can't get it right...