What you said: Council plans increase in number of Exeter areas to have part-night street lighting
Express and Echo readers have hit out at Devon County Council's announcement that it plans to increase the number of districts which will have streetlights switched off overnight after a series of trials in Exeter.
The council revelled a full list of provisional dates for the spread of part-night street lighting across the city.
Readers hit out at the news when it was announced on our Facebook page on Friday, see just a few of the comments below:
Sharyn Parkhouse: "It's so dangerous, for all the women working in care, pubs, anywhere with late shifts or out socializing then walking home afterwards in darkness. saving their money over peoples safety is disgusting."
Gina Beggs: "lights where out last night, put them back on! its bloody horrible its pitch black outside and its not nice when your home alone! i had to put my hallway lights on."
Chris Ward: "Why turn them all off? just leave a few on so its not completely black. Mind you i remember all the lights going off at 12 when i was a kid."
Just last The AA warned Devon County Council that turning Exeter's street lights off is putting lives at risk.
Research showed that night-time accidents in bad weather on well-lit 30mph urban roads had been slashed by 15.6per cent over the past five years.
By contrast, where street lights have been switched off or are not present, the fall was just 2per cent.
They added that official statistics revealed that, on darkened 40mph built-up roads, accidents in the wet, snow or ice were down 21.8per cent where there was lighting, but by only a quarter of that - 5.2per cent - where there was not.
The reaction goes against a recent council survey which suggested the public welcomed the move. Speaking in Febraruay local councillor Rod Ruffle said: "What surprised me was to discover that across the whole city there were 71 responses of which two-thirds were in favour of part time night lighting and most of the remaining one third were against."See when the street-lights will be switched to part time in your area by hovering over your ward in the map below: ![]()
