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Lights out - literally!
BillieTheBot
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"Thousands of street lamps in suburban areas are being switched off after midnight. The blackouts are being imposed by councils to cut energy bills and meet climate change targets. Buckinghamshire is carrying out one of the most radical trials of the new approach. More than 1,700 lights, which illuminate 25 miles of roads, will soon be switched off completely. The council claims the scheme will save £100,000 and nearly 600 tons of carbon dioxide emissions every year."
So says the Daily Mail. Click here for more details. Must admit I don't really have a problem with it. I can't see what the point is of having lights on at 2am when a street is completely deserted myself. It'd be largely for the benefit of CCTV cameras which will have nothing to film at that time of night anyway. As for the argument it's dangerous for motorists... someone's obviously neglected to tell the Mail that cars these days have headlamps which you can use to help see at night.
What do you reckon? Great idea, or just a council being stingy?
So says the Daily Mail. Click here for more details. Must admit I don't really have a problem with it. I can't see what the point is of having lights on at 2am when a street is completely deserted myself. It'd be largely for the benefit of CCTV cameras which will have nothing to film at that time of night anyway. As for the argument it's dangerous for motorists... someone's obviously neglected to tell the Mail that cars these days have headlamps which you can use to help see at night.
What do you reckon? Great idea, or just a council being stingy?
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When you get birds singing through the night because they no longer have a concept of day and night you know it's got bad.
I've got to admit that's one of the few advantages of living in a rural area. When I look up towards the sky at night, I can see the stars above me, amidst the peace and quiet. Whenever I'm in Manchester, or any other major city, I can't see that at all.
Although, having said that street lamps do actually use a very small amount of electricity, they are only about 11-25 watts each.
ditto here, what about people coming out of pubs etc? the roads up here tend to get relatively busy at weekends between midnight and about 2ish, so no I don't think that's a brilliant idea!
Only on the edges which is where most people live anyway.
Stargalaxy, as for CCTV not being needed after 2am, what exactly are you basing that on......? I've gon through hours of footage for investigations where the incident happened in the early hours of the morning, and our spate of burglaries were all happening between 3 and 4, although unfortunately they were happening in an area not covered by CCTV.
We use ours retroactively to identify people once a crime has ocurred.
Town centre CCTV from what I understand is quite effective and proactive. A busy city centre will have van loads of divisional support units driving around, seconds away from trouble.
A cctv operator spots something, radios in and the van turns up. The CCTV system we use leads to quite a few arrests and PNDs.