Street Lighting Night Inspection Programme
Street Lighting Maintenance
Street Lighting Night Inspection Programme
As part of a responsive but planned maintenance service, all streetlights and other illuminated highway furniture are inspected during the night. This enables us to establish quickly where lights are unlit and to programme repairs.
To carry out the street lighting night inspections in Tameside, the Authority has been divided into areas of a size that can be reasonably inspected when there is the least number of hours of darkness.
All illuminated furniture is inspected for faulty operation, defects and danger to road users, within these designated areas, which includes lighting, beacons, traffic signs, bollards, traffic signals, pelican crossings and subways.
There are twenty areas that are inspected for side roads and two routes inspected for main roads.
The side road inspection areas are defined by the ward boundaries and most encompass several wards.
The main road routes are split between north and south Tameside and are defined by the terms for Principal Roads.
Currently, six inspections are carried out each week, two on Monday nights and one on each other weekday night. Which means the whole of Tameside is inspected in around three and a half weeks.
Orders for repair are issued as soon as possible the following day or on Monday for the Friday night inspection.
The information collected is monitored to help us improve our performance in keeping as much of the illuminated furniture working as possible and to identify trends and specific problems.
We are currently working on providing the routes available on-line so that you can check when your street is next due for a night inspection. However, in the mean time if you want to find out when your street is next due for a street lighting night inspection please email your Street Name and Town to us and we will get right back to you.
Bulk Lamp Replacement
Modern street lighting sodium lamps have a nominal life expectancy of approximately three years. When a lamp is new it is at it's most efficient, however, at twelve months old it gives only about 95% of its original output. By the time the lamp is three years old it is only running at approx 70% efficiency in terms of light output, even though the electrical energy consumed remains the same.
To burn a lamp beyond its three year nominal life can often damage the control gear ie. ballast / ignitor etc., when it does eventually fail.
By carrying out a planned cyclic maintenance programme on a three year cycle, incorporating a lamp change reduces the number of random failures and has so far proven to date the most efficient and cost effective method of working.
Some of the benefits of a proper planned maintenance regime are as follows:
- Maintaining high standards of light output.
- Minimising the more expensive costs associated with random lamp failures.
- Localising maintenance work in pre-planned areas.
- Preventing the expensive replacement of control gear failure caused by burning the lamp to destruction.
- Coinciding electrical six year testing of the installation.
- Keeping energy usage to a minimum. (Remember, as a lamp ages beyond three years the energy increases but the light output falls).
- In at least 90% of cases, the failure is indeed only the lamp.
If a bulk change programme is not implemented the lamps actual light output would decrease resulting in poorer levels of illumination on the highway.
When the lamps eventually fail, this could damage the control equipment at the same time resulting in expensive repairs. Furthermore, the lamp failures would occur randomly all over the borough resulting in increased random unplanned transport and man power and more importantly costlier repair charges.
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 Engineering and Environmental Health Tameside MBC Council Offices Wellington Road Ashton under Lyne OL6 6DL |
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