We saw the future last week and it was not garlic bread.
Us culchies or country dwellers in rural Ireland don't have street lights and from August until around now it's pitch black at tea time.
We were on a bus to Castro Marim last week and we saw these solar panels. What a perfect solution especially for rural areas?
Apparently they cost around 2000 Euros. Use LED bulbs and need no electricity supply.
Recently here in Ireland the county council's have been reducing the speeds on rural roads from 80 K to 60 and changing the road signs. This must of cost thousands nationally. Perhaps they could look at solar power street lighting?
I would love to go a walk with Bronte at night like the people in the towns and villages can.
Suggest it to your local council and see what they think about it?
ReplyDeleteI don't think they would listen to me JayCee. If someone like Michael Healey Rae mentioned it they would. Remember the story about Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise stopping off at a pub on the way to Kenmare JayCee?
ReplyDeleteI have seen signs with solar panels here in UK, often on a major road, so we do have them here. As we rarely go out at night the street lights make very little difference here, locally they are all turned off for a few hours in the very early hours.
ReplyDeleteAccording to Google this morning an average of 33 pedestrians are killed in Ireland each year Marlene. It's over 400 in the UK. I think solar lighting would reduce these figures enormously. I don't think rural dwellers should be trapped in their homes in winter without public transport or street lighting. People in cities, towns and villages aren't.
ReplyDeleteThing is Dave - we sophisticated highfalutin' city dwellers don't care about country folk - just as long as you keep milking them cows for us.
ReplyDeleteI think most governments want people to live in the city YP. Rural dwellers get second class services at best.
DeleteDo you get a lot of sunshine in Ireland in winter?
ReplyDeleteNot really Anonymous.
ReplyDeleteThe future is not garlic bread? Well...that's certainly disheartening.
ReplyDeleteI have read about some cities who have begun experimenting with glow in the dark paint to mark walkways and for street markings.
When we move back into the woods, it will be dark at night. The lights from the neighbors are comfortably distant from our house. The little solar lights from the cemetery across the road are no bother. Unless they begin to move. Our way. :)
Hi Debby. Glow in the dark paint sounds very good. I wish all coats had high visibility stripes on them. The number of people I see walking unlit roads in black or dark clothes. Lights coming on in cemeteries would give that: " Yoikes Scooby" feeling.
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