Council turning off lights to save money?

n97 mini

I recently drove from Intel via Main St up to Confey at around 11pm and counted 22 street lights that were off/not working.

Is this going on in other Kildare towns, or is it just Leixlip?

Moonbeam

The traffic light people have been around Maynooth alot lately.
They may have been working on them.

Joe Public

Moonbeam wrote: »

The traffic light people have been around Maynooth alot lately.
They may have been working on them.

I don't think the traffic lights and the street lights are worked on by the same people.

Haven't noticed much difference in Celbridge.

Airtricity are looking after the maintenanace of the street lights in most counties now, you can log faults here http://www.airtricitysolutions.com/Content.aspx?key=report-fault

Joe Public

I was just down the Clane Rd in Celbridge and most of the street lights are off, seems like I wasn't observant enough. I know a few months ago there were two that weren't working but now it's a completely different story. Could be something going on ok.

L1011

Generally its an unmetered supply

I was told by a councillor that KCC is changing maintenance supplier so there's very very little work being done by the current ones. Oddly enough the fault I reported was fixed very shortly after that...

Joe Public

MYOB wrote: »

Generally its an unmetered supply

I was told by a councillor that KCC is changing maintenance supplier so there's very very little work being done by the current ones. Oddly enough the fault I reported was fixed very shortly after that...

They are hardly changing from Airtricity already! are they?

n97 mini

The household charge will go straight to KCC, and it makes it all the harder to stomach when half the street lights around the place aren't working and aren't being fixed.

The light outside my house has been out for about 2 months now.

Dolbert

n97 mini wrote: »

The household charge will go straight to KCC, and it makes it all the harder to stomach when half the street lights around the place aren't working and aren't being fixed.

The light outside my house has been out for about 2 months now.

While the household charge is being collected by local authorities, the money will be sent straight to central government for redistribution. Local government is currently operating on a shoestring.

L1011

Joe Public wrote: »

They are hardly changing from Airtricity already! are they?

They changed to Airtricity as the ESB sold the contract; not by any other decision.

There are other firms in the market now.

Buffman

n97 mini wrote: »

The light outside my house has been out for about 2 months now.

Have you contacted Airtricity yourself? Joes link above has the number.

I've actually found them pretty good, normally come within 2 or 3 days of us getting on to them. They're still working away, I must have seen the van 2 or 3 times this week around Celbridge fixing lights. Normally a white Transit with a built in cherrypicker like this.

n97 mini

Dolorous wrote: »

While the household charge is being collected by local authorities, the money will be sent straight to central government for redistribution. Local government is currently operating on a shoestring.

Well, late last year almost every road in the area was resurfaced (in an effort to use up budgets, according to the media), many of which had been resurfaced less than 12 months prior.

I will phone Airtricity tomorrow and tell them, but I'd be pretty sure I'm not the only one that has noticed that some many lights in the town aren't working. In my lifetime I have never seen so many out.

Dolbert

n97 mini wrote: »

Well, late last year almost every road in the area was resurfaced (in an effort to use up budgets, according to the media), many of which had been resurfaced less than 12 months prior.

Don't believe everything you read in the papers...

n97 mini

Well, there was no good reason to resurface roads that were recently resurfaced. (EDIT: and footpaths were re-done too)

Anyway I see the light is on outside my house is back working again. I'll take a mosey around tomorrow evening and see what the rest of the town is like.