Street lights
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They should turn off all traffic lights between 12am and 5am instead. I don't understand why that's not a thing. There's plenty of junctions and roundabouts without traffic lights, and people manage fine, so why do we need them on at night?
I'd much rather that than having street lights turned off.
I'd much rather that than having street lights turned off.
Run the risk of it not turning back on for rush hour.
id rather they made them smart lights that saw cars comming and turn green, rather than just timed, takes the **** to sit at a junction on a red light at 3am with no cars comming the other way
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you do realise the human eye can adapt to darkness? It's not like we were wandering around bumping into stuff helplessly for thousands of years....
Interesting.
Wonder how having no street lights can cut crime? Would've thought it'd make it worse.
LEDs are cheaper in the long run due to the heavily reduced maintenance and running costs, but unfortunately the public sector is unable to see beyond its current years budget.
ofc it would cut crime...
i mug you with the lights on = you can give a description of me and tell the po po and it becomes a crime.
the lights off = no description, nothing for the po po to go on so no crime
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Yup, presumably him wandering around in the road after a night out was purely down to the lack of street lighting.
Ah, she says him wandering about in the road, despite it being a road 'well used by students' was down to the lack of lighting.
'They had to wait for the light to be turned back on to find his body'
How fast was this taxi going? Must have been really fast to throw him far enough not to be found without the local lights being switched on.
'We don't want any other families to go through what we've been through'
Well, it hasn't happened again so.... erm...
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I wouldn't mind them being off, I have to have my blind set below the window ledge to block them out for a good sleep. (I could buy a blackout blind!)
Having driven through many villages at night all of the people out and about seem to have torches. I own powerful bike lights so wouldn't find it a hindrance but most people need their arses wiped.
Having driven through many villages at night all of the people out and about seem to have torches. I own powerful bike lights so wouldn't find it a hindrance but most people need their arses wiped.
ofc it would cut crime...
i mug you with the lights on = you can give a description of me and tell the po po and it becomes a crime.
the lights off = no description, nothing for the po po to go on so no crime
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They should really have lights that dim down when no one is around and with motion sensors get brighter gradually as you approach, best of both worlds then, some networked LED lights could do this easily.
Also may make it harder to sneak around at night because they are motion sensing.
They replaced all the lights around here with metal halides which are more directional but seem to make it hard to see any where around the small area they are pointed at.
The old orange sodium lamps would light up a wider area which allowed you to see better of your surroundings plus sodium lamps are about the most efficient lamps (100-200 lumen per watt) even if they have bad colour rendering.
Makes me wonder who made the decisions on changing the lights and how much is actually saved.
Also may make it harder to sneak around at night because they are motion sensing.
They replaced all the lights around here with metal halides which are more directional but seem to make it hard to see any where around the small area they are pointed at.
The old orange sodium lamps would light up a wider area which allowed you to see better of your surroundings plus sodium lamps are about the most efficient lamps (100-200 lumen per watt) even if they have bad colour rendering.
Makes me wonder who made the decisions on changing the lights and how much is actually saved.
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Install Clicklight on your Android phone for £1.50. Or there are plenty of ad-ware versions for free. No excuse, and it suffices as a torch.
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I would rather the street lights here be turned off. It's still bright inside the house when we turn the lights out. have been tempted to go light bashing!