Shed some light on common sense

Monday 21st December 2009, 2:59PM GMT.

From Christopher Davey.
FURTHER to the former States Treasurer’s most pertinent comments (JEP, 16 December) on the current tiresome, money-wasting works on Victoria Avenue, he failed to mention that the next phase, apparently, is to fell all the perfectly functioning lamp standards on the central reservation and replace them with slightly newer ones, on the premise that they look a little more modern and they burn slightly less power.

I would personally switch them off altogether after 11 o’clock at night anyway, resorting to a facility on my car known as headlights.

With money short and so many roads simply need resurfacing and nothing else, such a persistent addiction to profligacy fills one with despair.

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Adrian

December 21, 2009 at 4:41 pm

Valid comments this “money to burn” mentality still hasn’t been irradicated from the Jersey way of doing things.

All street lighting should be turned off when not needed. It is such a waste of money and a waste of precious resources.

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South London Lad

December 21, 2009 at 11:43 pm

Whenever I visit Jersey (five or six times a year) your public services department always seems to be digging up and resurfacing the road.

Have you lot got so much spare money that it has to be regularly buried under tarmac?

I thought that Jersey ran banks for that sort of thing.

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Nathan Jordan

December 22, 2009 at 2:43 am

profligacy
/profligt/

• adjective 1 recklessly extravagant or wasteful. 2 licentious; dissolute.

— ORIGIN Latin profligatus ‘dissolute’, from profligare ‘overthrow, ruin’.

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PJG

January 4, 2010 at 3:06 pm

I have been told by a reliable source that each of these lamp posts cost £7000 each.
And I would bet a penny to a pound of salt they are too difficult for a local fabricator to manufacture.

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