Fluorescent street lighting

[Colly0410]

They've replaced all but one sodium streetlights in my street with LED's, the one exception is outside our front fence where we still have a low pressure sodium light. However it conked out a few days ago. Phoned the council & they'll come when they can, but there's a very big backlog of jobs because of covid19 so not expecting them anytime soon. I presume we'll be getting an LED job when they get round to fixing it...

[Colly0410]

Originally Posted by Colly0410

They've replaced all but one sodium streetlights in my street with LED's, the one exception is outside our front fence where we still have a low pressure sodium light. However it conked out a few days ago. Phoned the council & they'll come when they can, but there's a very big backlog of jobs because of covid19 so not expecting them anytime soon. I presume we'll be getting an LED job when they get round to fixing it...

Well they came to fix the light today, first they went to the wrong lamp post, when I showed them the light that was actually bust (that is up a footpath) they said "ooh we can't get the cherry picker truck up there" & phoned their office. They then said "we're not allowed to climb ladders anymore because of H&S, another crew will have to come out & put a whole new lamp post in." I asked if the new light will be an LED? He said "yes it will be as we haven't got any sodium bulbs any more, all new & replacement streetlights will be LED from now on." Of course he didn't know when they'll be coming to sort it out, so it'll still be a bit dark out the front...