Today’s image comes courtesy of Dawn Reid, who writes:
” Firstly, I was in Tower Hamlets a couple of weeks ago, and the council there (one of the poorer boroughs in the UK) were using the lamp posts to charge electric cars.
This is a perfect solution for Bath city centre and environs with all the townhouses and flats. I know it’s been discussed, but this London council have actually done it. Why not here?
On another matter, I thought I might comment on the university’s travel plan you usefully alerted your readership to, but what server is it being hosted on? Three questions in, none meaningful, took an absolute age, and then it crashed altogether, and so I have given up.”
An interesting idea, Dawn. Meanwhile, the questionnaire link has been changed in the university travel plans story, but it is https://uniofbath.questionpro.eu/UoBTravelPlanConsultingTheCommunity
I asked a councillor a couple of years ago why the lamp posts were not being used as charging points. The answer I was given was that there was insufficient grid capacity to facilitate this. The problem was not political indecision but a need to upgrade electrical infrastructure, which was outside the council’s control. I’ve no idea if I was told the truth, mind you!
Brighton had this when I living there in Hove , was done about 8 years ago. It be cool if many more areas could possibly achieve this.