Street Lighting In Rural And Urban Areas

These are lamps that are placed on a raised post and are meant to be sources of light on the road edges or walking paths. They are normally lit at some given time of the night. To make it easy and save on cost each street lights are fitted with sensitive photocells that can control the lighting up at dusk and off at dawn. Street lighting helps save accidents on roads and reduce crime.

These lights are not only meant to light up at night, but can also automatically turn on when there is dark weather. These bulbs are normally placed on some tall poles alongside the roads though some may also be fitted on utility poles.

Information from research carried out by people from drivers, pedestrians and bikers has it that when there is enough light in the street crime reduces in a great way. It is based on the fact that when the roads are clear for one to see it reduces fear for crime doers are afraid of being seen in much light.

When these lamps are being put, there should be a consideration of the intensity of light they emit. The one that emit a lot of light are not encouraged for they make one not to see properly. This much light sends one tensing for u cannot see long distances. These road illumination should have minimal light which have the ability to eliminate shadow for one to see clearly.

The cost incurred in the buying, fixing and making sure they are always maintained in the right condition is big. This may bring out argument that the crimes being eliminated by light cannot be noted and that there is no a specific cost that can be attached to that, the fact remains that we will always need the services of these lights.

Apart from wrongdoings, these lamps help improve the development of a city by that when there is light in most places then people would work for long hours and this brings about development. Lights play great role in changing an economy to a 24 hour economy. Another benefit associated with enough illumination on the roads and highways is that it reduces accidents at the same time ensures drivers and pedestrians are safe.

Research has it that enough light in urban areas cuts down the accidents by more than sixty percent. This is true since most accidents are experienced at night which implies that the darkness has something to do with these injuries. This is with consideration that some of the drivers may be irresponsible at night because in many cases there are no cops. It is still believed that as much as they may over speed and do other not allowed behaviors, presence of light reduces accidents.

The whole summary of these leads us to concluding presence of light is at the favor of the public and if anything it should be improved in all areas. However, there are some environmental related reasons why organizations would like light reduced but the security reason outweighs them all.