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Re: Energy saving auto dimming street lights

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Not hard at all its compartmentalisation often occurs due to different bits 
of the services being  tendered out to different companies.
 Wait till you see what happens next month when banking services can be run 
by anybody as long as you money stays in a bank its safe. I see BT running 
cash machines or doing transfers, and advice for ininvesting in Tescos or 
almost anything else, also of course if the banks lose their money making 
delayed transfers, they will want to charge us for keeping our money.

As for streetlights, it is very difficult to tell who to complain to. all 
lamps are supposed to be numbered and  some are done by Higways agency, 
while others are council. In london its split three ways, Highways agency, 
TFL and each council.
In theory they should all talk to each other but we all know how reliable 
that is.
 Brian

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> In message <fb3odqFopnuU2@mid.individual.net>, Huge 
> <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> writes
>>
>>In the UK they save even more money by simply not lighting the roads.
>>
> Her indoors has now rung the council 6 times about the failed street light 
> outside our house. Because of its situation on a corner, the area is pitch 
> black and the pavement (and the road) is potholed.
>
> She has been told that they only repair lights every 3 months and 
> hospitals have priority, whatever that means. When asked who would be 
> responsible if an old person had a fall because of the lack of lighting, 
> the council representative said she could not answer that.
>
> The appointment of the current contractor featured in Private Eye at the 
> time.
>
> Worse than this is that small "refuge islands" have been installed in the 
> centre many of the main roads. These have a central pole with a light on 
> top and a lit-from-beneath bollard each side. On most of these all the 
> lights have now failed and many of the bollards have disappeared, 
> presumably having been hit by vehicles.
>
> They hung Christmas lights on the  streetlights through the town, but only 
> on the working ones. It's hard to understand why they couldn't have put a 
> box of bulbs on the cherry picker before they set off.
> -- 
> Bill 

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Energy saving auto dimming street lights JAB <here@toadsfoot.net> - 2018-01-02 21:42 -0600
  Re: Energy saving auto dimming street lights Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2018-01-03 10:08 +0000
    Re: Energy saving auto dimming street lights Bill <Billaboard@gmail.com> - 2018-01-03 12:42 +0000
      Re: Energy saving auto dimming street lights Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2018-01-03 12:47 +0000
        Re: Energy saving auto dimming street lights Bill <Billaboard@gmail.com> - 2018-01-03 13:10 +0000
      Re: Energy saving auto dimming street lights "Brian Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2018-01-03 15:10 +0000
      Re: Energy saving auto dimming street lights DerbyBorn <Somewhere@Nearhome.com> - 2018-01-03 15:14 +0000
        Re: Energy saving auto dimming street lights "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2018-01-04 06:25 +1100
        Re: Energy saving auto dimming street lights Bruce Horrocks <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2018-01-04 01:10 +0000
          Re: Energy saving auto dimming street lights JAB <here@toadsfoot.net> - 2018-01-03 20:15 -0600
            Re: Energy saving auto dimming street lights Bruce Horrocks <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2018-01-05 00:19 +0000
              Re: Energy saving auto dimming street lights JAB <here@toadsfoot.net> - 2018-01-04 19:16 -0600
                Re: Energy saving auto dimming street lights DerbyBorn <Somewhere@Nearhome.com> - 2018-01-07 12:59 +0000
    Re: Energy saving auto dimming street lights Robin <rbw0@hotmail.com> - 2018-01-03 12:51 +0000
      Re: Energy saving auto dimming street lights JAB <here@toadsfoot.net> - 2018-01-03 08:05 -0600
      Re: Energy saving auto dimming street lights "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2018-01-04 06:04 +1100
    Re: Energy saving auto dimming street lights "Brian Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2018-01-03 15:04 +0000
      Re: Energy saving auto dimming street lights Harry Bloomfield <harry.m1byt@NOSPAM.tiscali.co.uk> - 2018-01-03 16:52 +0000
    Re: Energy saving auto dimming street lights andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel) - 2018-01-03 17:47 +0000
      Re: Energy saving auto dimming street lights charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> - 2018-01-03 18:34 +0000
        Re: Energy saving auto dimming street lights Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2018-01-04 12:23 +0000

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