howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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looks inevitable now, just a question of where the hits come.
the plans are intened to save 15% on the leccy bill but at the rate prices are rising by the time they implement there could be no savings on the present costs.
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/news/2011/november/14/streetlights_to_be_turned_off.aspxGuest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
Just common sense.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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not if they shut down the lights near me, you cannot walk on the pavements after dark so the middle of the road is the only way.
without street lighting pedestrians would be in serious danger.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I told you all this only last week after I went to a meeting with the KCC.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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no vic you said it was a consultation this is fact, no doubt decided well in advance of any consultation.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Do not jump the gun Howard it is just a maybe at this time.
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
- Posts: 3,205
What about shift workers this town is a 24 hour town!
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
Are you saying you do not like walking in the dark
Guest 694- Registered: 22 Mar 2010
- Posts: 778
there are these great things you can buy in the shop nowadays.. called torches..
how do you think they managed before? we can manage now.. it will also stop light pollution!
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
- Posts: 8,115
If they turn the lights out at midnight, then there is an accute danger that people rolling home late will walk into a lamp post.
Foxes will be roaming the streets at night, and cars will take the wrong turning at junctions and end up in a dark alley.
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
- Posts: 3,205
Try riding a bike in Dover without streetlights,even the lights on your bike dont give you enough light to see properly.
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,894
In answer to post #8, NO I would not feel safe.
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Alec Sheldon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 18 Aug 2008
- Posts: 1,037
We managed alright in the war with no lights at all.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,894
I wonder if the elderly felt safe going out in the blackness during the war with all the bomb craters
One was not so likely to be mugged or stabbed during the war as we are now, I do not think you can really compare then and now.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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things were different then jan, the luftwaffe made a point about lighting up our town centres, if only k.c.c. were that responsible.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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There are a lot of roads that don't really need lighting out of "hours" in Deal we can see lights over Whitfield along the A2 and places people don't walk. Cars have headlights....
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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I was at a School Governors meeting yesterday and one of the Community Governors an ex Policeman asked the Governors,Teachers,and School Council, who would like to see the lights turned out at night,these children were aged between 6 and 11.The only hand that went up was one of the teachers! There were about 25 people Adults and Children in the ward.
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
Don't we need to know exactly which lights in which streets will be turned off before getting uptight about it - as Paul has said, some lights are unnecessary.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
indeed we do, but there is not a list available so people are concerned.
normally in cases like this we only find out too late so people want to see which streets will be affected.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
the council/goverment are treating us like mushrooms,keeping us in the dark and feeding us bullcarp.
