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teuchter said:
Blue pavement lights might have been novel and in fashion when they started rebuilding the tube station last century.

Now they just look cheap and nasty cos you see them everywhere.
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I wouldn't have thought you would be affected by such vacillations when it comes to fashions in aesthetic . Surely it shouldn't matter how numerous they are. I understand Victorian terraces were quite numerous. Does that make them cheap and nasty?
 
quimcunx said:
I wouldn't have thought you would be affected by such vacillations when it comes to fashions in aesthetic . Surely it shouldn't matter how numerous they are. I understand Victorian terraces were quite numerous. Does that make them cheap and nasty?
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What next, gentrification? :mad:
 
i think the blue lights are well pretty.
they complement the ones in the trees by st matthew's church :)
 
That many blue LEDs in one place will make Brixton move really quickly.

Strap a spoiler onto the tube station as well, and it'll go like a rocket! :cool:
 
The real reason for all these blue lights is that it's virtually impossible to find a vein under that type of illumination. Have you ever seen an addict shooting up under those trees eh?
;)
 
For ages you could get red, yellow and green LEDs but not blue ones. Then at some point in the late nineties (ish) blue ones became available and people got excited by the novelty value of this. Suddenly you started seeing them all over the shop, whether in street lighting or stuff like Hi-fi displays. Which was all very good for a few weeks because it made stuff look cool and futuristic. Then of course it became clear that the future as represented by blue LEDs was in fact the present and the shortly after that the past. So now blue LEDs have to have a better reason than "looking futuristic" to exist. And while they might look quite nice here and there, in my opinion there is now a proliferation of them and in architectural terms they just make buildings look dated.

They are almost as bad as those stupid LED lighting systems that can cycle through the colour spectrum. You quite often see them on Grand Designs and the likelihood of them having been installed is directly correlated with the lack of good taste of the occupants, who, after a few months of living with them almost certainly decide that they serve no good purpose other than novelty value and switch them off for good.

I seem to remember reading something about blue light being the most difficult to focus on, or something like that, making it particularly unsuitable for things like control panels. This doesn't necessarily have much bearing on pavement lights but I thought I'd just throw that in there to blacken their reputation a little more.
 
I too noticed the lights all lit for the first time this morning on my way past. Made me smile all the way to the bus stop at how randomly scattered they are and how underwhelming they look lit up in daylight. Perhaps tomorrow the magical toilet will be in action too!
 
Winot said:
Does anyone know what's happening at the Brixton Rd end of Ferndale Rd? There are some new traffic lights aimed back up FR which allow traffic coming down FR towards BR to turn right towards the tube when the new pedestrian crossing lights are green. However, the road is still one way going away from BR.
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lozenge said:
The traffic lights are so bicycles can turn right (but apparently not left) on to Brixton Road. Very odd.
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I guess the only possibilities are that (a) they make that bit of Ferndale Rd two-way for cyclists (unlikely as there isn't much room for a contraflow) and/or (b) they make the de facto cycle route cut-through to Stockwell Ave. a legal one.

There also seem to be 2 redundant traffic lights on the LHS at that junction as you are coming into Brixton on the Brixton Rd.

I don't know why these things exercise me really but they do.
 
Quimcunx - it depends how many pedants there are and whether or not they possess the corner

Minnie - an excellent solution


As you were
 
nick said:
Quimcunx - it depends how many pedants there are and whether or not they possess the corner

Minnie - an excellent solution


As you were
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yes, but it was only Se5 being a pedant :p


We could also call it Nitpicker's/Nitpickers' Corner for those that can't spell pendant ;)
 
I can't spell nitpicker.

And there is definitely more than one pedant round these parts. I'm all for herding them into a specially designated corner.
 
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