General Chat

the trouble with LED street lighting, is there is no Twilight, outside of the beam.....I have a street light which "points" at the road about ten feet from my garage, and I have difficulty sorting my keys, in the dark, believe it or not.
Bob

The street light opposite my house fell over, so they replaced it with an LED one - without the 'shade'.
I could read in bed - but couldn't sleep :-|
No need to turn the stair light on to get to the loo (which is downstairs) in the middle of the night.
It took 3 e-mails before they understood what I meant by a 'shade' - I had to send the plonkers images!!! Eventually they put one on.
6 months later, they replace all the lights, and moved the one that was opposite my house!!

But surely the local council is not responsible for providing even a little bit of light to your home?

What would you say if the council took you to task for not leaving a light on in your kitchen so that people could see the footpath outside?

:-D

Errol - it was only a tiny bit of light from the side of the street lamp.

I think they were in camouflage. I think it was a red truck - and I've never seen that one before :-S

I've not even mentioned the pavement which is a bit curved around a parking layby - it was always a bit dark at our end but I am now expecting lots of people falling into our garden (we side onto the road) because they can't see the change in direction.

The main road lights go off at midnight - when we lived 'up the hill' we used to have to 'pay' for the street lighting for those that lived down at the bottom of the hill - the top was too rural for lights.

Surely your council is not responsible for lighting up your home!!!!???

And how did they sneak? Was it under cover of darkness? Did they wear camouflage?

Think yourself lucky - many places around the UK have actually cut street lighting in some places totally.

Still - I shall write a letter to my MP demanding that he looks into the fact that the council will not light my home.

The council sneaked into our road yesterday and changed our street lamps to LED.
It might be saving them money but not us.

We used to get a bit of light through the front door and now the hall is pitch black at night. There was also just enough light to stop me switching on the light in the bathroom in the middle of the night. (I'm a sitter downer ;-) )

Now I'll have to disturb folks by switching on the light and it looks as though we might have to get one of those plug in motion lights for the top of the stairs because daughter has to get up before the birds several mornings a week at it is no longer safe.

Then of course she will need a decent torch to get her to work - but it is summer and our hardware shop only has a few in.

So :-P to our local council.