Street Lights on BA Expressway

[patric]

quote:Originally posted by rwarn17588

quote:Originally posted by YoungTulsan

They have been doing rolling outages on street lamps for years now.

I always feel especially fuzzy when they darken I-44 on what is documented as the most deadly stretch of highway in the state.  Glad to know we can save a few bucks on the lighting budget (while of course wasting tons of it elsewhere) at the expense of a few lives.

Oh, what a load of crap.

The deaths are occurring on that stretch because of traffic congestion and driver error, not because it's too dark at night.

By that logic, that stretch of I-40 near Texola should be a death trap because it's pitch-black out there after sundown.

If you need street lights to be driving at night, you shouldn't be behind the wheel at all.

When the lights are on, it doesnt make it any less dangerous.  Expressway lights are casting distinct shadows in this photo of the scene where a pedestrian was hit and killed:
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The kicker is, the pedestrian was probably lulled into a false sense of security by thinking the expressway lights would help the motorist to see him.  Dead Wrong.

[cannon_fodder]

It amazes me how many people die walking on expressways in Tulsa.  Particularly I-244.  It is an expressway with 8 lanes, a 60 MPH speed limit, crossing every mile at the most, sporadic pedestrian bridges, concrete barries at the mid point and fences to stop people walking into the road.

How would walking across it seem like a smart move?  Lights or not.

[DolfanBob]

One thing that alway's made me feel weird was when my vehicle would pass right under the street light and it would go out.
I alway's think, now what's the odds it would go out right when my vehicle got there. Then again maybe I just didnt see the two copper thief's at the base of the pole.

[patric]

I hate to think the 69-year old man who was killed crossing the BA believed the streetlights there would keep him safe.