Hi all,
While Earth hour was making the news late last week, I thought I might take the opportunity to hit up my council about getting a shroud put on the ridiculously bright street light beaming excessive amounts of stray light into my property. It's right out the front of my house, on my side of the road, and given my property is about 1.5m below the road level, it not only lights up the whole front yard but does 90% of the back yard as well including the 'observing shed'. It's a very annoying light even without having the issues of enjoying astronomy.
Anyhow, fired off a very polite email asking what steps could be taken to reduce the 'back lighting' effect of this light (with no mention of a telescope). My suggestion was something along the lines of a 120 degree shroud, of which the other neighbour concerned had no problem with, and registered his support for such action.
My council's response:
No worries sir, you can pay for that to be done, an average quote for this work is around $1500
, and you might have to wait 3-4 months.
Maybe that's a polite way of telling me to 'get stuffed'
I'm sure I'm not the first person ask this question of a council, interested in what response others have been getting.
George
