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Author:  paulzolo [ Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:50 am ]
Post subject:  Essex street lights turned back on for an hour
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Street lights will be turned on for an extra hour across Essex following a decision by the county council.

About 70% of lights have been turned off between midnight and 05:00 since March 2013 to save £1m annually.

Safety and crime concerns led some local councils to offer to fund the night lighting themselves.

Essex County Council said the lights would now be turned off between 01:00 and 05:00 six days a week, costing an extra £300,000 a year.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-32030913
Author:  TheFrenchun [ Wed Mar 25, 2015 11:53 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Essex street lights turned back on for an hour
someone else offered to pay for the lights to be on all night and county council refused?

I'm guessing noone in Essex is a shift worker then :S
Author:  big_D [ Thu Mar 26, 2015 4:52 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Essex street lights turned back on for an hour
Some residential areas over here are turning the lights off after 10 in the evening. If you need light, you send an SMS to a number on the lamppost and they turn back on for 5 minutes.
Author:  cloaked_wolf [ Thu Mar 26, 2015 7:19 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Essex street lights turned back on for an hour
Seems a bit pointless Dave? I'd want the route to be relatively lit on my way home as I walked.
Author:  paulzolo [ Thu Mar 26, 2015 10:05 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Essex street lights turned back on for an hour
TheFrenchun wrote:
someone else offered to pay for the lights to be on all night and county council refused?

I'm guessing noone in Essex is a shift worker then :S


Nah. If you’re out and about that late at night, the police helicopter will pick you up and light your way home. :lol:
Author:  pcernie [ Thu Mar 26, 2015 1:07 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Essex street lights turned back on for an hour
paulzolo wrote:
TheFrenchun wrote:
someone else offered to pay for the lights to be on all night and county council refused?

I'm guessing noone in Essex is a shift worker then :S


Nah. If you’re out and about that late at night, the police helicopter will pick you up and light your way home. :lol:


'But I hate those Channel Five programmes!'
Author:  big_D [ Fri Mar 27, 2015 4:54 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Essex street lights turned back on for an hour
cloaked_wolf wrote:
Seems a bit pointless Dave? I'd want the route to be relatively lit on my way home as I walked.

It is cheaper / saves more energy than putting electronic sensors on each lamppost and having them turn on individually for a minute or so. The whole street lights up, AFAIK. The trial is somewhere down south, so I've only seen it in a TV report.
Author:  TheFrenchun [ Fri Mar 27, 2015 10:02 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Essex street lights turned back on for an hour
big_D wrote:
cloaked_wolf wrote:
Seems a bit pointless Dave? I'd want the route to be relatively lit on my way home as I walked.

It is cheaper / saves more energy than putting electronic sensors on each lamppost and having them turn on individually for a minute or so. The whole street lights up, AFAIK. The trial is somewhere down south, so I've only seen it in a TV report.

but doesn't that create even more of a risk? it's like sending a beacon to assaulters " look, there's someone here!"
Author:  big_D [ Fri Mar 27, 2015 10:54 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Essex street lights turned back on for an hour
Rural village with no assault crime...
Author:  davrosG5 [ Fri Mar 27, 2015 10:55 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Essex street lights turned back on for an hour
TheFrenchun wrote:
big_D wrote:
cloaked_wolf wrote:
Seems a bit pointless Dave? I'd want the route to be relatively lit on my way home as I walked.

It is cheaper / saves more energy than putting electronic sensors on each lamppost and having them turn on individually for a minute or so. The whole street lights up, AFAIK. The trial is somewhere down south, so I've only seen it in a TV report.

but doesn't that create even more of a risk? it's like sending a beacon to assaulters " look, there's someone here!"


I'd say you could view that either way - yes there's someone there... in a now well lit area. Plus it doesn't just send a beacon to criminals, it sends it to everyone on the street (depending on how thick their blinds/curtains are).
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