| Streetlights...... 08:39 - Nov 10 with 2759 views | itfcjoe |
I know they have cut down on these in the past but seems ridiculous now.
Mrs itfcjoe went for a run in Kesgrave last night, just after 5pm when pitch black only streetlights on one side of the main road on, none on any side roads - she ended up re-routing to come back early as both dangerous and hard to run in those conditions.
Surely you need lights on until later into the evening when people have got back from 9-5 jobs and even schoolkids have got home from after school clubs.
I remember when they started switching them off at midnight and that was awkward enough - bloody cut backs! |  |
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| Streetlights on 08:42 - Nov 10 with 2219 views | SitfcB |
Surely that’s an error? Like you say, they usually go off at midnight around the estates and back on at 6am, main roads always usually on.
Might’ve been turned off for summer or something and not been put back on yet for winter, worth reporting? [Post edited 10 Nov 2022 8:43]
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| Streetlights...... on 08:48 - Nov 10 with 2168 views | chicoazul |
It’s almost as if we live in a third world country now. |  |
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| Streetlights...... on 08:55 - Nov 10 with 2149 views | textbackup |
mate, edmonton road, its so dark i swear i'm blind when i walk down there! 3 street lights that barely even work |  |
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| Streetlights...... on 08:58 - Nov 10 with 2124 views | GeoffSentence |
Streetlights are just another incarnation of the nanny state. You want light, get a torch. |  |
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| Streetlights...... on 09:11 - Nov 10 with 2068 views | Meadowlark |
| Streetlights...... on 08:55 - Nov 10 by textbackup |
mate, edmonton road, its so dark i swear i'm blind when i walk down there! 3 street lights that barely even work |
Report it.
The council do not have a team of street light checkers. The only way they'll find out that the lights are not working is if someone tells them. |  | | |
| Streetlights...... on 09:16 - Nov 10 with 2053 views | StokieBlue |
I think this must be council specific, the lights here are on much later, I only really notice as it's annoying for astronomy but fully understandable, the lights should be on until the majority of people are home.
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| Streetlights on 09:22 - Nov 10 with 2027 views | ITFC_Forever |
| Streetlights on 08:42 - Nov 10 by SitfcB |
Surely that’s an error? Like you say, they usually go off at midnight around the estates and back on at 6am, main roads always usually on.
Might’ve been turned off for summer or something and not been put back on yet for winter, worth reporting? [Post edited 10 Nov 2022 8:43]
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They go off at 11.30 where we are. |  |
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| Streetlights...... on 09:27 - Nov 10 with 2011 views | textbackup |
| Streetlights...... on 09:11 - Nov 10 by Meadowlark |
Report it.
The council do not have a team of street light checkers. The only way they'll find out that the lights are not working is if someone tells them. |
you report it, i've told you the road. | |
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| Streetlights...... on 09:28 - Nov 10 with 2005 views | dickie |
They go off at 11 now on Humber Doucy Lane I think |  | | |
| Someone will be along in a minute.... on 09:29 - Nov 10 with 2006 views | Bloots |
....to tell you that this is a good thing, because streetlights cause light pollution, which in turn causes insects to get confused.
You need to stop worrying about yourself and start thinking about the moths!!!
I might go and climb a lamp post in protest at your insensitivity. |  |
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| Streetlights...... on 09:30 - Nov 10 with 1998 views | Oldsmoker |
Write to your MP.
Is that Dan Poulter or Tom *unt.
Good luck with that then. |  |
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| Streetlights...... on 09:31 - Nov 10 with 1995 views | Meadowlark |
| Streetlights...... on 08:55 - Nov 10 by textbackup |
mate, edmonton road, its so dark i swear i'm blind when i walk down there! 3 street lights that barely even work |
Report it.
The council do not have a team of street light checkers. The only way they'll find out that the lights are not working is if someone tells them. | | | |
| Streetlights...... on 09:33 - Nov 10 with 1988 views | RobTheMonk |
We don't have any at all in the village I'm in. I just use a headtorch if I take the dog out. |  | | |
| Streetlights...... on 09:36 - Nov 10 with 1973 views | NthQldITFC |
...it's the only lights I know, streetlights...
(sorry, one of my long-standing musical confusions when I was a kid!) |  |
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| Streetlights...... on 09:49 - Nov 10 with 1950 views | clive_baker |
This is a good thing, because streetlights cause light pollution, which in turn causes insects to get confused.
You need to stop worrying about yourself and start thinking about the moths!!! |  |
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| Exactly! (n/t) on 09:49 - Nov 10 with 1936 views | Bloots |
| Streetlights...... on 09:49 - Nov 10 by clive_baker |
This is a good thing, because streetlights cause light pollution, which in turn causes insects to get confused.
You need to stop worrying about yourself and start thinking about the moths!!! |
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| Streetlights...... on 09:53 - Nov 10 with 1913 views | Wallingford_Boy |
we don't even have streetlights in my village.
everyone walks to the pub with headtorches.
tell the missus to just get one of those. |  |
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| Someone will be along in a minute.... on 09:54 - Nov 10 with 1912 views | WeWereZombies |
| Someone will be along in a minute.... on 09:29 - Nov 10 by Bloots |
....to tell you that this is a good thing, because streetlights cause light pollution, which in turn causes insects to get confused.
You need to stop worrying about yourself and start thinking about the moths!!!
I might go and climb a lamp post in protest at your insensitivity. |
If you could check that the bulb is still functioning whilst you are up there... |  |
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| Streetlights...... on 12:01 - Nov 10 with 1806 views | Illinoisblue |
| Streetlights...... on 09:16 - Nov 10 by StokieBlue |
I think this must be council specific, the lights here are on much later, I only really notice as it's annoying for astronomy but fully understandable, the lights should be on until the majority of people are home.
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are you Stoke Park or Stoke the city? |  |
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| Streetlights...... on 12:14 - Nov 10 with 1764 views | itfcjoe |
| Streetlights...... on 09:28 - Nov 10 by dickie |
They go off at 11 now on Humber Doucy Lane I think |
Is that in Ipswich (Council wise)? - guess it is still a main road | |
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| Streetlights...... on 12:22 - Nov 10 with 1741 views | jeera |
| Streetlights...... on 12:01 - Nov 10 by Illinoisblue |
are you Stoke Park or Stoke the city? |
No. |  |
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| Streetlights...... on 12:24 - Nov 10 with 1729 views | jeera |
| Streetlights...... on 09:28 - Nov 10 by dickie |
They go off at 11 now on Humber Doucy Lane I think |
We've got one that goes off and on whenever someone walks past it.
I briefly wondered if it's some new thing where it operates on sensors but as it's the only one in the road that does it I'm guessing it's probably shorting out. | |
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| Streetlights...... on 12:49 - Nov 10 with 1671 views | Illinoisblue |
| Streetlights...... on 12:22 - Nov 10 by jeera |
No. |
Well it’s down to ex Stoke High or Stoke Mandeville. Help a brother out | |
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| Streetlights...... on 12:54 - Nov 10 with 1648 views | Dubtractor |
| Streetlights...... on 12:49 - Nov 10 by Illinoisblue |
Well it’s down to ex Stoke High or Stoke Mandeville. Help a brother out |
Pretty certain it is Stoke Newington - home of the liberal metropolitan elite.  |  |
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| Streetlights...... on 12:55 - Nov 10 with 1644 views | dickie |
| Streetlights...... on 12:14 - Nov 10 by itfcjoe |
Is that in Ipswich (Council wise)? - guess it is still a main road |
Still IBC, it used to go off at midnight but is 11 now | | | |
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