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Posted on 10/27/2012 5:07:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Lights are being turned off on motorways and major roads, in town centres and residential streets, and on footpaths and cycle ways, as councils try to save money on energy bills and meet carbon emission targets. The switch-off begins as early as 9pm.
They are making the move despite concerns from safety campaigners and the police that it would lead to an increase in road accidents and crime.
The full extent of the blackout can be disclosed following an investigation by The Sunday Telegraph - which comes on the day that clocks moved back an hour, making it dark earlier in the evening - and found that:
3,080 miles of motorways and trunk roads in England are now completely unlit;
a further 47 miles of motorway now have no lights between midnight and 5am, including one of Britain’s busiest stretches of the M1, between Luton and Milton Keynes;
out of 134 councils which responded to a survey, 73% said they had switched off or dimmed some lights or were planning to;
all of England’s 27 county councils have turned off or dimmed street lamps in their areas.
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Cities are much different than country roads. Cities have gangs and other predators in close proximity. Cities have entertainment, theater, sports events, and shopping districts. This is how they get the money to prosper. Without lights, nobody would leave their homes and venture out and/or go to those events. It’s much too dangerous to walk around in the city without lights.
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I was just thinking about Sir Edward Gray myself.
I’m not talking about pedestrian areas. I’m saying that there is no reason that the interstate needs to be lit like your living room, just because its inside city limits.
That was my first thought. We live in an extremely rural area, and there is only one street light on the two-lane main road leading to our sparsely populated neighborhood. That dang street light is dangerous. It interferes with one’s night vision, and it is at an intersection, where it’s not great to be distracted by the only light within 15 miles.
“But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.”
Yup, I agree.
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