Street lighting.

[Fish]

Has street lighting got worse or is it actually darker than we’re used to or.........

I was just driving across the city and I was struggling to see the white lines in some lanes and generally the visibility of the road was very poor.

The white lines whether a normal road or a dual carriageway were very difficult to see!

I then noticed and remembered that much of our street lights have been allegedly updated, in that, so called stronger lights were installed on only 1 side of the streets and the staggered opposite lights we’ve been used to for years were removed.

Going by these recent experiences these single street lamps don’t work, and pedestrians on the 1 side are walking in the dark, which can’t be right.

Anyone else notice that our roads are not as well lit as they should be 🤔

 

[Hobbit]

You have elektrickery in Coventry? And it can make lights? Wow!

 

[Old Skier]

Didn't do Pathfinder then . To many street lights IMO but I agree about the white lines and I think there has been a policy of not using cats eyes anymore.

 

[Blue in Munich]

Try Surrey. As an austerity measure they're looking to turn them all off at midnight to save on the electricity.

https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/roads-a...-signals-and-signs/part-night-street-lighting

 

[Deleted member 16999]

A lot in the Durham area have been changed from the orange street lights to the white LED lights, the reason given is to cut down on light polution.

They’re orange lights would light the street, the LED’s are like a spotlight directly below the lamp so you go from light to dark between them.

 

[ColchesterFC]

Didn't do Pathfinder then . To many street lights IMO but I agree about the white lines and I think there has been a policy of not using cats eyes anymore.

Come on keep up. You're not allowed to use "cats eyes" anymore. You have to use "road studs" now. It turns out that some tourists are so stupid they thought that they were made from real cats.

http://metro.co.uk/2017/08/14/counc...ourists-think-animals-are-being-hurt-6851958/

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Southern Softy townies with yer street lights and road studs........man up.

 

[chellie]

They are rubbish on the streets round here. Accidents waiting to happen imo.

 

[Fish]

I just drove to the club and again couldn’t help but notice how poor the white lines are, there almost invisible, and with dark, wet winter nights coupled with poor street lighting I can only envisage more accidents happening.

I think the new kind of lighting on 1 side of the street and the LED bulbs dont work or highlight the white lines on the road, of which 90% are that worn there pretty useless anyway.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

We are introducing these white LED type lights. Give out far less light and have made some paths much darker which can't be good

 

[SaintHacker]

Try Surrey. As an austerity measure they're looking to turn them all off at midnight to save on the electricity.

https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/roads-a...-signals-and-signs/part-night-street-lighting

Wish they'd do that with the traffic lights round here. Its beyond infuriating sitting at a red light, the only car at a cross roads, for however long in the early hours. The amount of the damn things in this city they would save themselves millions!

 

[Redtraveller]

They’ve changed all the lights by us, they are much worse

 

[Cake]

They’ve changed all the lights by us, they are much worse

To buck the trend on this topic; I am very happy with the change on my street. The lights on both sides have been replaced with LEDs.

They cast a much brighter light onto the road and pavement, which worried me as one of them is directly outside our bedroom window, but it truly directs it light down, with much less coming out sideways into the room than the light it replaced.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Stop moaning, less light pollution.

 

[williamalex1]

Stop moaning, less light pollution.

That's the light pollution shining on my back garden , good news is, it's now being turned off at 8 pm

 

[Lord Tyrion]

I've followed your posts regarding that sign. I wince for you every time. Awful.

 

[Beezerk]

Should have gone to Specsavers.

 

[patricks148]

they recently changed all the lights around my side of Inversneck with LED street lights. TBH i'm not sure its any lighter than it was before, maybe more energy efficient and easier to maintain.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

they recently changed all the lights around my side of Inversneck with LED street lights. TBH i'm not sure its any lighter than it was before, maybe more energy efficient and easier to maintain.

It's not meant to be lighter. It offers clearer light, cheaper to run, the bulbs last longer and the light is targeted downwards instead of polluting all around. It lights the area it is meant to light, not everywhere else as well.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Try Surrey. As an austerity measure they're looking to turn them all off at midnight to save on the electricity.

https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/roads-a...-signals-and-signs/part-night-street-lighting

All street lights in my road are now off overnight (since end July this year). Our friends across the road are pleased as they have a street light right outside their bedroom window

This austerity measure I can go with - the one that gets me is the cut-back in Refuse/Waste disposal.

Our local centre is now closed on Thursdays and it will not accept even one small back of 'rubble'. We had our hall replastered last week, I took one small bag of left over hardened mixed plaster to the centre, and was told I couldn't dispose of it there. I had to take it to Camberley - 1hr round trip. Now that is environmentally friendly. Besides, one bag of rubble? Quick drive 10minutes into Surrey Area of Natural Beauty and nobody will spot me dumping it at the side of the road. Brilliant.