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Why not fit them with motion detectors.
Street lights are on here where I live and sure very few people are about between those times. Could see it making life easier for your freindly neighbourhood burglars if the lights switched off permanently |
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I can remember when we had the duglayyy earthquake some years back and all the street lights went out you honestly couldn't see a thing so I hope they don't, motion detected ones sound like a good idea though. |
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"Why not fit them with motion detectors.
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1 - the cost
2 - how annoying would that be everytime a car went by or a fox or a tree blowing in the wind... how close would you need to be to be picked up by the sensor?
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"perhaps there will be an increase in vigilante groups too?"
And parked cars and skips being drove in to.
I can't see it (well I wouldn't be able to would I - it would be dark) working in urban areas. I know some villages which already do it... but they are chav free zones. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Street lights are there for saftey reasons. I think motion sensors are a great idea. I do wish that all shops and offices should be made to turn all their lights off once they are closed and the offices are empty. That should save a lot of energy. All the shops along my local high street leave their lights on after hours and its such a waste of energy |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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What about solar lights? They would be high enough to catch light during the day! Old street lights can be recycled into scrap metal etc to pay for them. Can always have a back up of electricity if needed. |
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In the old days there were no motorway lights and street lights were pretty dim. Life went on without the"elf n safety" brigade trying to run our lives (and keep themselves in jobs).
Studies show muggers don't like the dark, strangely enough. There were less muggings when the lights go off by these cowardly little rats.
Turn the lights of and let us see the stars again! And save some energy as well as cash. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Cars have lights, so should bikes.
Your eyes will get fully used to the dark after around 30 mins. You will see shapes etc, no colour... and I guess your not walking far to get home, and those councils that do, tend to switch them of when most people are at home.
I do like the motion sensors, maybe angled so only people on the pavement will trigger them and if really smart the one next to it too, ready  |
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My Mum always said that If I ate up all my carrots I would see in the dark.
It's just a thought but maybe if the government promoted a national drive to eat more carrots that this may suffice?
We wouldn't need any lights at all! |
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By *im53Man
over a year ago
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"My Mum always said that If I ate up all my carrots I would see in the dark.
It's just a thought but maybe if the government promoted a national drive to eat more carrots that this may suffice?
We wouldn't need any lights at all!"
lol
some one still beleaves that war time propagander used to hide the fact we had radar  |
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Studies show muggers don't like the dark, strangely enough. There were less muggings when the lights go off by these cowardly little rats.
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Yeah muggers don't like the dark as they like to see who else is about... which would be a doddle with motion sensing lights.
However... vandals do like the dark. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Our street only has one light anyway and that bugger's often on the blink.
It's like living in Dickens days in the Winter.
Motion sensors are a great idea though.
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"I do like the motion sensors, maybe angled so only people on the pavement will trigger them and if really smart the one next to it too, ready "
You have given me a better idea!
Get rid of the street lights altogether and have illuminated paving stones like in Michael Jackson's video for Billie Jean. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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They have started turning lights off at night here. I start walking to work around 6.15 and have always gone the long way along a well lit main road. Now I walk in the dark and its pitch black and quite scary. There is another lady who I pass on the way, she has written to the council about this but not even had a reply. I do have a personal alarm but what good would that do on a Sunday morning when no-one is around to hear it and help! Perhaps I should ask for a reduction in my council tax. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Street lights are there for saftey reasons. I think motion sensors are a great idea. I do wish that all shops and offices should be made to turn all their lights off once they are closed and the offices are empty. That should save a lot of energy. All the shops along my local high street leave their lights on after hours and its such a waste of energy"
i thought they were going to try to impose that with companies that dont adhere being fined or having to pay a tax for it??? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Street lights are there for saftey reasons. I think motion sensors are a great idea. I do wish that all shops and offices should be made to turn all their lights off once they are closed and the offices are empty. That should save a lot of energy. All the shops along my local high street leave their lights on after hours and its such a waste of energy
i thought they were going to try to impose that with companies that dont adhere being fined or having to pay a tax for it???"
i've no idea but a tax would just defeat the object of turning the lights off which is to save energy
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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There's obviously strong feelings on this one.
Here's my tuppenoth
Turn off all motorway lights after midnight.
Turn off all rural lights on main roads / trunk roads after midnight, leave on every other light near to houses.
In built up areas, turn off at least every other and preferably 2 out of 3.
On roads through private housing estates where there are few lights already, look at each street individually.
At the same time, fit a little radio transmitter to each lamppost which can broadcast a signal to passing cars which will carry the maximum speed for that road, then the speed restrictor fitted to all cars can prevent the passing cars exceeding the speed limit.
Speed restrictors are already fitted to all HGV and busses/coaches, so they are NOT dangerous. |
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As of April 2010 the cost of electricity between the hours of 7pm and 6am is ridiculously cheap and is basically supported by the far higher prices during peak hours (4pm - 7.30pm).
Is has been found that there is little cost saving but co2 savings instead.
The studies we have done with the police suggest that there has been no increase in crime in areas where lights have been removed, possibly because people no longer use those routes and crime may inverse on the routes with lights.
This story has hit the news but the majority of councils have been trimming the street lights for a couple of years. |
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Not worked out how its going to save any CO2 here. Anybody got a serious link to explain it. Most councils are saying they are going to save money, hardly any seem to be thinking alternative technology that could save them even more. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Street lights are there for saftey reasons. I think motion sensors are a great idea. I do wish that all shops and offices should be made to turn all their lights off once they are closed and the offices are empty. That should save a lot of energy. All the shops along my local high street leave their lights on after hours and its such a waste of energy
i thought they were going to try to impose that with companies that dont adhere being fined or having to pay a tax for it???
i've no idea but a tax would just defeat the object of turning the lights off which is to save energy
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I think the idea is to incentivise rather than try to impose a law |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Co2 is saved because the councils reduce the amount of energy that they are using.
The reason that most councils won't use alternate technology is because the alternatives costs are too great in this world of reduced budgets.
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In our little town they have turned off loads, and not just fron midnight! The one main street is lit, but the other few are only lit near junctions or bends.
Walking home through near pitch black streets that I have known for 40+ years is a very spooky experience!!!
I can see that it would not be a good idea in places with street crime, and I know a lot of women who are nervous about how dark it can get around here. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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If the council saves a packet on reduced energy bills then the energy suppliers are going to have reduced income. Just who are they going to look at to replace that income. In future you can pay for your street lighting without actually having any. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Why not fit them with motion detectors.
Street lights are on here where I live and sure very few people are about between those times. Could see it making life easier for your freindly neighbourhood burglars if the lights switched off permanently"
There is a lamppost directly outside our bedroom window and it would drive me nuts if it flickered on and off all fookin night.
Plus, turning them off completely from midnight to 5am is giving burglars and car thieves a green light (or no light at all) to come and rob you.
Stupid idea from a crackpot desk jockey with nothing better to do. |
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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago
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The motion detectors are a non starter due to the bulbs needing to go through a "warming up" period. They also do not appreciate being turned off and on in quick succession needing to "cool off" before being switched back on again. It`s all to do with how the bulbs are made. And I know what the poster who said about haviing a light outside their window going off and on. A friend of mine had on of those speed limit signs that lit up when someone exceeded the speed limit outside his bedroom window. In the end, he ended up having a piece of board to put over the window when he went to bed! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The street lights in our little village have been switched off for a few months now.
But funny thing is the local county council building down the road continues to be all lit up like a christmas tree! |
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By *ig bad OP Man
over a year ago
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"The street lights in our little village have been switched off for a few months now.
But funny thing is the local county council building down the road continues to be all lit up like a christmas tree!"
Now thats just typical. I am waiting for the letter coming through the door saying "sponsor a street light"  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Norfolk the tenth lowest density county in the country, with 38% of the county’s population living in the three major built up areas of Norwich, Great Yarmouth and King's Lyn.
All the above no doubt street lighting through out the night. |
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"godda larf - motion detecting lights - they'd be pretty useless wouldn't they - the speed cars go ????"
no ......... its proven technology , dont you remember the micheal jacson vidio
billie jean |
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