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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, November 12, 2012

QUESTION NO.8

QUESTION: Councillor W. Lavelle

To ask the Manager to provide a detailed update on the council's proposed piloting of LED public lighting technology?

REPLY:

The council has implemented a policy change to ensure that all lanterns installed on segregated pedestrian footways and cycle ways shall be low maintenance LED Lanterns with long life guarantees. To date footpaths / cycleways in Dargle Wood, Ambervale and Springfield Ave have been lit with LED Lanterns. The proposed Palmerston Cycle Scheme on the N4(Chapelizod to Palmerston), the NTA Strategic Routes 3 (Tallaght to Templogue)and Strategic route 4 Tallaght to Ballyboden)Cycleways have also been specified with LED lanterns.

The Public Lighting section has also instigated a number of trial installations in residential area to investigate the viability of LED lanterns for a one for one replacement of existing Sodium (SOX) lanterns. To date we have completed two trial installations and are currently installing a third.

By the end of this year there will be approximately 60 LED lanterns installed in SDCC.