Telford Live

Have seen a couple of close calls to date. Two problems are the selfish (or from what I have seen the rather overweight lazy sods) that park on the road, rather than the two car parks, behind tesco or at the church, and the lack of a proper crossing. The road becomes a bottle neck [...]

There is also the ‘feelbad’ factor too. These are PAYE people, not fat cats.

The WORST place for this is Madeley I think is the one at Tescos cause standing in the side of the road the actual tescos store is on, as a pedestrian you can’t see around the corner to your right so how the hell are cars meant to!?!! I work at the tescos and have [...]

Someone mentioned falling off (& then deleted their reply ?!?)
Well, there’s an unconfirmed rumour that the person who came off in this incident suffered two broken arms:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYPxD4W2B28&NR=1

Skip to about 1m 25s in

I think you’d have to group them or it would be like strobe lighting!

Sounds like a bit of a waste of time, by the time you add on admin costs too.

Why dont they make street lights work off passive infra red sensors, then they would only work when needed

Yes I don’t see the point of all the lights either.

I’m all for dimming/turning off some of the lights, depending on the area/road. A lot of the main roads can have the lights turned off. There’s a ridiculous amount of background light around with all the street lights, so getting rid of some of it sounds like a good idea really – dimming the lights [...]