Up to 75% of councils are dimming the lights to save money a dimmer switch on your lights at home doesn't save very much in electricity AFAIK, e.g. dimming to half the light doesn't reduce the power consumption by 50% - is it different on street lights?

Depends how they do it. They could just replace the bulbs with lower power ones, for instance, or remove a couple of bulbs from multi-bulb fittings. Or turn off half the lights in a street.Then use the savings to pay the extra hospital costs due to the increase in road accidents. Householders will also notice an increase in insurance premiums in unlit areas to pay for the increase in burglaries.....Inserts tongue in cheek> Then again, the story *is* in the Daily Mail.

Dimming street lights?

Apr 18, 2011 144 Replies

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Appelation Controlee 15 years ago

I drove Fords (Cortinas - ugh!) in the seventies - at the start and end of the decade - and that wasn't a feature of those.

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Invisible Man 15 years ago

ISTR my old Vauxhall Cavalier badged Opel Ascona had parking lights operated by the indicator stalk.

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Nick Leverton 15 years ago

I think it was a Vauxhall-Opel thing, both of our 1960s Victors as well as my ex's 1980s Astra had that feature.

Nick

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Invisible Man 15 years ago

My father's 1963 Ford Zephyr had a switch to put on the offside lights only for parking. Had an interlock to prevent the engine starting when it was on. Cue a call to the AA from a technology challenged dad when the switch must have been caught by a knee.

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Dave Plowman (News) 15 years ago

Only on the German designed ones.

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