Reykjavik city plans to save ISK 45 million per year by cutting back on street lighting, according to Sighvatur Arnarsson, head of the city’s Asset Management department.
The city is making the savings by setting its automatic light sensors to trigger street lights with lower levels of ambient daylight – down to 20 Lux from 50. That effectively means the lights will come on slightly later and turn off slightly earlier.
The shift apparently brings Reykjavik street lighting standards in line with most other major northern European cities, RUV reports.
Reykjavik has 4-5 inhabitants per street light compared to an average of 9-10 in American cities.
The Reykjavik move was, however, carried out without the knowledge or consent of the Icelandic Roads Administration whose job it is to ensure the country’s roads are as safe as possible.
Reykjavik is the brightest capital of Scandinavia. Please, do not turn it into the dark and crappy Stockholm or Oslo.
What about all the Christmas lights around Reykjavik at the moment?! It’s brighter than midday on Mercury…
@Balkanson – it is a well known practice to turn off the light when we want crappy guests to leave ;-)
Good we can save on electricity, so we have more to hand it out for free to all the aluminum multi-nationals! But I hope they are going to charge more for it! I love being taxed more.
Another “crisis” management example.
I just hope that real expenses for management to “save” electricity won’t be higher than estimated savings. It’s about 400 ISK per person per year. So I would agree to pay that but keep street lights.
LESS POLICE, MORE CRIMINALITY AND DARKNESS, NO WONDER WHY ROB ASSAULTS AND RAPING IS SKY HIGHING IN RVK NOW
Øystein; Norway said: Then in some parts of Oslo you have to keep the lights off all the time. :)
“EUROKING said:
LESS POLICE, MORE CRIMINALITY AND DARKNESS, NO WONDER WHY ROB ASSAULTS AND RAPING IS SKY HIGHING IN RVK NOW”
SIR EURO and the endless Iceland bashing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbEXr9-5UjI
Axel,
I have that one with subtitles !
http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/670081/7d4ca94d/kat_gaat_vreemd.html
Thanks for the Information and the Tip