"Tim Watts" wrote in message
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Andy Burns wrote:

The Medway Handyman wrote:

Up to 75% of councils are dimming the lights

Only dimming? Round here whole swathes of them have been "unplugged",
some have even had their heads removed and most of the rest go off after
00:15 (or rather after 01:15 now the clocks have changed) leaving one
light per street in residential areas.

They've been considering that round here. It's already pretty black at
night
(village). Certainly seems to be a retrograde step WRT accidents

Cars should be more easily visible.
Only pedestrians that wear camouflage clothing will, probably, be more
difficult to see.
Cars would also travel more slowly as nobody drives beyond the limits of
visibility (do they!).

and
crime...

Urban areas have more crime now and they have street lighting, maybe its the
fact the crims can see that causes the extra crime.
If they had to carry torches to see and houses had PIR lights that came on
when people were about crime would go down?
Its a lot easier to see someone climbing over fences if they need a torch
than it is when they can put on camouflage clothing and see what they are
doing without a torch.