Street light farce

[Colin Foster 70]

Does anyone know how long it takes to sort faulty street lights out. A large section of our road has been pitch black for a month because Amy have decided to fit old fashioned sodium lights on our road instead of LED which aren't controllable and are on all day and as a result have blown the central fuse. About half the street reported it within two days

 

So much for upgrading to LED, they're installing the old sodium lights in areas being upgraded now, which don't switch off and use a lot of current which blows the fuse. How hard can it be to change the fuse, even I could do it, I've got a lot of spare fuse wire.

Edited September 20, 2014 by Colin Foster

[Paddy 10]

Are you sure they're installing the old type of light? Can't see why they would do this!

 

Whereabouts is this near?

[Colin Foster 70]

They've started this week on the streets around the Hallamshire hospital, all the lanterns on top of the new poles are the old fashioned energy wasting lights.

 

They've put really old lights on the new poles on our road, even though the rest of the area has the LED lights. And because the old ones aren't meant to be left on all day, they have blown out within a fortnight.

[hotrock 10]

From what I have heard, the new LED fittings are en-route/awaiting delivery, and the sodium lights are just a temporary fix until they can catch up. So you will eventually get the new LED lights, but when could be anyone's guess

[mike84 23]

Why don't you phone up and ask? Surely you're more likely to get an answer to your question?

 

Usually, if it's more than a couple of lights that are off then it's likely to be a fault that Northern Power Grid have to attend and repair.

[maggidee 10]

hope they come back and spray over the 4c ok message on the footpath bottom of normanton hill looks a mess but that was only 6 weeks ago

[haddy 10]

Contact the council and find out what is happening