07-30-2015, 06:59 PM
http://cs.astronomy.com/asy/b/astronomy/...-dark.aspx
"But that finding was not backed up by the UCL study released yesterday. That research shows less than 1 percent of all nighttime traffic collisions occurred on streets where the lights had been switched off. And overall, the statistics showed no link between accidents and dimming, reducing, or changing the style of streetlights."
I remember night skies when I was a child, before street lighting was "required by law for safety" almost everyplace. Now we have to go far into the hinterland (OK, to the Dark Sky observatory a dozen miles from my house) in order to even have a hope of seeing the Milky Way, much less some of the dimmer constellations.
Your town want to save money ? Turn off the street lights !
"But that finding was not backed up by the UCL study released yesterday. That research shows less than 1 percent of all nighttime traffic collisions occurred on streets where the lights had been switched off. And overall, the statistics showed no link between accidents and dimming, reducing, or changing the style of streetlights."
I remember night skies when I was a child, before street lighting was "required by law for safety" almost everyplace. Now we have to go far into the hinterland (OK, to the Dark Sky observatory a dozen miles from my house) in order to even have a hope of seeing the Milky Way, much less some of the dimmer constellations.
Your town want to save money ? Turn off the street lights !