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Lighting Up the Humber Bridge? No Thanks!
The Humber Bridge lighting trials - 1999.
This was only 1/6th of the proposed array of 72 lights. The bridge tower height above the piers is 155 metres, so you can work out for yourself how high the light beams went!
THE STORY CONTINUES...
The idea has not yet been completely abandoned by the "Bridge Lights Brigade".
The latest capricious plan in circulation [October 2004] is [was] a £40,000 trial of a staggering £2 million plus "light pollution free" lighting system for the Humber Bridge, strongly supported by Hull Chamber of Commerce. I was told it could involve a possible 400 laser beams shining off special paint on the structure.
A trial of the latest scheme to make the bridge look "nice" started Monday 16th May 2005.
» The following Guardian article gives some background on the project.
The Bard got it right!
William Shakespeare - King John, Act IV, scene ii
WHAT NEXT?
Bridge Lights Trial said to have FAILED?
Latest Information
I have not heard anything further about the result of the 2005 Humber Bridge lighting trials. If anyone has an inside track, please would you try to find out what is going on? We must not loosen our grip on the issue. Please have a rattle about and see what you can discover? If you can't tell me for reasons of confidentiality, at least tweak the system from the inside. I am concerned that with the reorganisation of English Nature the race memory may be erased and the scheme slip through unopposed because no one is watching what is happening.
For more information....
For information on the location and status of the River Humber, see:
Meanwhile, why not have a look at Hull City Council's own Local Policies and think how it fits with the proposal?
You can e-mail them from their website: Hull City Council Local Agenda 21 UK
More on Light Blight:
Other interesting sites related to light pollution are:
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