I NOW find the council (who keep telling us they are cutting back on street lighting) are replacing the new fluorescent lamps with LED lamps, (noticed Park Drive) these seem to use raw AC since the flicker is very bad.
Also a keep left bollard has been replaced by a solar powered LED sign.
The cost of the bollard, would have paid for the electricity used in the old bollard for over 30 years (at today’s costs), we are seeing all this new lighting installed at great expense to the tax payer and the result is blacked out streets, along with higher energy usage. What hypocrisy.

G Davies
Cardiff Road
Newport