TOPIC: Is the world getting darker

I can hardly see anything these days driving on most roads.
Hardly any have lights on them, no cats eyes, I can probably see about 20 ft in front of me without full beam

Either the dark is getting darker, or the council are putting things at risk by not switching lights on(if they are there)

Watch out if you're travelling the highways and byways of south Cumbria....

Sort it out.

Useless wrote:
Street lights are dimmer nowadays which doesnt help driving conditions

Glad it's not just me. I hardly had to use full beam but find myself having to use it quite often now. Either that or I'm just getting an old c*nt and my eyes are getting worse.

Its those stupid LED street lights. Their beam points straight down,where the old ones light was 'sprayed' everywhere. You only have to drive up Scotland road to see how darker it is.

It saves money, it reduces pollution caused by producing electricity to power them it reduces light polution etc, all in all its a good thing people just have to learn to deal with it.

Happyblue wrote:
Dam it Happyblue.....let people moan its what we are good at here......

Disagree HappyBlue. The LED lights are not good enough. They're a danger to road users, and a danger to pedestrians, in particular the elderly, some of whom will no longer go out after it gets dark for fear of not being able to see where they're walking, or who might be around.

Who cares about safety though eh, as long as it saves a bit of money.

cufcdeano wrote:
You can keep spending and spending and spending you have to find areas to cuts and these are lights, you can disagree all you want but the lights need dimmed not just for money as they are messing with nature, the world needs to dim and we need to start to conserve energy and it may not always be helpful and may make life a tiny bit harder but its part of reducing the damage we are doing to the planet.

M6 is a nightmare, all the way north from by he Midlands it's got street lights, until you hit Cumbria then it's completely dark. Nearly fallen asleep a few times driving a night heading back to Carlisle from games/airports/work etc

Useless wrote:
Just buy one of them lights cyclists now use and glue it on your bonnet,you will be able to see 1/2 a mile in front of you.

F..k it, I'm just going full beam all the time,

Sod the others.

Sounds like a few of you need a trip to the opticians.

or have your defective dipped lights repaired

or hand your licenses back to the dlva

or

just learn to [censored] drive according to the conditions.

It's a Tory conspiracy, in order to increase the accident rate, to justify more speed cameras, to recoup more money, to spend on bombs, to bomb terrorists, that threaten to bring down uk house prices.

That's what it is.

At least the UK has cats eyes in the road. In Alberta (Canada) we don't even have those, even on the major highways.

RonBacardi wrote:
That sounds more like you driving too long rather than it being too dark to me.

cufcdeano wrote:
Too true Deano. The dim lighting and dark clothing makes some pedestrians completely blend into the background. I fear there will be accidents if they walk onto zebra crossings expecting motorists to see them and stop in time.

Maybe the greedy Tory bast*rds in the ivory tower should stop abusing or rather stop the taking of allowances and expenses claimed by MP's and stop topping up their own f*cking earnings before depriving the public of lighting..... Lighting for f*ck sake! It's hardly going to end the world when the Chinese are consumed in fog for days on end as a result of the emission of 6 billion tons greenhouse gases a year! Poor excuse!

Streetlights definitely switch on later these days. It's near darkness when the new style flicker into life...

New streetlights certainly do less than the old style lighting. It just feels darker even on streets with this new style lighting.. a robbers paradise if u ask me

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markredfox73 wrote:
Takings up are they Mark?

Most cars have a little widget to raise or lower the beam of light... just raise it as high as [possible.... helps a bit. I do find some people do flash thinking you are on full beam....just whack it to full beam if that happens and blind the sods.

I was talking about street lighting in the pub the other week. The stretch of road from my house to the Brook (at Cleator) has had those new lights installed, as was said above the lighting seems to be more controlled and shines just directly down. The general view was that they actually seem much brighter than the previous lights. I think the reason is that there are more of them, so they are closer together, I assume they must still be saving money on them, or they wouldn't have been put there.

I think it is correct that they appear to be going on later as well.

Northumbrian wrote:
If that device is used correctly and the headlight level is set correctly, it is there to lower the lighting when the vehicle is loaded not raise them higher.

Full beam with a strip of duck tape covering to top edge of light 20/20 vision blues know best

...........but you have moose eyes, yes?