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Cost-cutting plans to reduce street lighting across East Sussex are being extended to Lewes.
Jersey is to replace all street lighting with "high efficiency" bulbs, according to the transport minister.
The four-week consultation asked people the importance of 25 services, including street lighting and gritting.
There will also be a new public square, better street lighting and improvements to shop fronts.
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With the advent of street lighting, however, socialising at night began to filter down through the classes.
Fears had been raised that changes to street lighting in Dorset would lead to a rise in crime.
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Street lighting hours would also be reduced at night, while responsibility for lollipop patrols could be moved to individual schools.
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Rebecca Watkins, from Briton Ferry near Neath, had been inside the Amnesia nightclub, outside which the owners later installed street lighting.
They're doing a lot of construction work on South Street, putting on a new street lighting and installing little smaller and nicer trees.
From outside, a little of the ugly orange East Berlin street lighting filtered in, and the objects in the room seemed to quiver slightly.
He attributes the initial shift to improvements in street lighting, domestic lighting and a surge in coffee houses - which were sometimes open all night.
But Parry says there is anecdotal evidence that sales are actually on the rise, as councils start to turn off street lighting to conserve energy and money.
The computer-operated system also allowed street lighting to be increased when needed and reduced when not, and the lights directed their beam downwards cutting light pollution, he added.
"There will be certain areas which we will avoid like roundabouts and pedestrian crossings and other areas where we feel that street lighting will be needed, " said Mr Cunningham.
Bamako, sleepy but fairly well run, with little crime and plenty of sewers and street lighting, looks nothing like the capital of one of the world's most impoverished countries.
Itron (ITRI) has the leading market share in the global smart metering industry, and Echelon (ELON) provides network solutions and interfaces for street lighting, residential appliances and facility monitoring.
The council previously had a number of small contracts covering issues such as road maintenance and street lighting, and the HESPE contract brought all those elements under one large contract.
It has long been argued by housing experts that public money is better spent on improving shacks in the favelas, and by providing them with electricity, running water, sewerage and street lighting.
Pristina and Belgrade supply local healthcare and education in parallel, but on Strpce's municipal council, Serbs and Albanians find themselves working together on practical issues such as refuse collection and street lighting.
We continue to see pricing pressure due to the weak demand in the China outdoor street lighting market, together with the overcapacity of backlight that has spilled over to the general lighting market.
The forum's founding members are all involved in advanced technology and solutions associated with the Internet of Things, including commercial infrastructure monitoring, energy-saving street lighting, home automation, energy monitoring and low power radio technology for sensors.
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The ring fencing of larger service budgets inevitably means that services which are the "meat and drink" of local authorities such as waste collection, street lighting and cleansing, parks and leisure will find the next period incredibly challenging.
Such behaviour carries a cost: while the city's debt is rising, its steep streets are increasingly pot-holed, its parks unwatered, its street-lighting patchier.
Pavements on Dogs Head Street, Falcon Road, Silent Street and Lower Brook Street are being realigned, and lighting and street furniture added.
Applications for Evergreen's solar cells and systems include highway call boxes, microwave stations, street and billboard lighting and off-grid rural electrification.
The council also voted to raise parking charges, cut funding for street cleaning and lighting and leave the city's parks unlocked and unattended overnight.
Under the program, Chevron Energy Solutions will upgrade street lights with LED lighting technology from Bridgelux at no upfront cost to the cities.
The young inventor envisages PaveGen systems being used to power off-grid appliances such as public lighting, illuminated street maps and advertising, and to be installed in areas of dense human traffic such as city centers, underground stations and school corridors.
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