Steve Firth wrote:
Mark wrote:
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Of course the council won't have to bear the costs of increased road
collisions and crime so they would probably save a little bit of
money.

Oh FFS isn't it time you townies stopped being scared of the dark? It 's
bloody miles from my home to the nearest streetlight. Crime is low, vehicle
collisions at night are rare. The significant crash hazard is during
daylight hours.

You obviously don't live somewhere urban, then. Conditions are different.

I used to live in a village where I didn't bother checking too
enthusiastically that the door had locked if I went out shopping for the
day. Here, in the middle of a city, I check the door is locked if I nip
out to the shop next door.

In the village, about a dozen cars passed my house in an evening, here
there are hundreds each night, with the same traffic levels at one in
the morning as at one in the afternoon. The accident rate at night is
worse, as the drivers are more likely to be drunk, and there are enough
of them about that a collision is more likely. I'd guess that where you
live, it's unlikely there is more than one car in sight at any one time,
so it's a bit hard to collide with a moving vehicle.

There were no streetlights in the village. There are here. So, maybe if
we get rid of the streetlights, all the criminals will move away. And
the drunks will stop driving round at night.

Yeah, right....

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John.