Some of the street lights in the village are being replaced. Well, that might not be entirely correct. The lights on top might be re-used so I’ll try again. Some of the street light lamp-posts in the village are being replaced. Last week a crew arrived and dug out deep holes next to some of the existing street light lamp-posts (or SLLPs for short). Then they erected (oo-er missus!) temporary barricades around the freshly-dug holes to prevent people/dogs/trolls from falling in. A couple of days later new SLLPs appeared in the holes, but the holes remained unfilled and barricaded up. These new SLLPs were just the posts, they had no light on top. At this point I should say that all of the SLLPs in the village had their lights replaced; the old school lamps were supplanted (good word!) with super bright LEDs.
Anyway.
This afternoon I noticed that the legacy SLLPs had disappeared, the new SLLPs were standing in filled-in holes, the barricades had been removed, and the new SLLPs had lamps on top.
So my questions are:
- Why? Why do this? Is this just one big scheme to keep SLLP personnel active?
- How? How do they disconnect the wiring from deep inside the base of the legacy SLLPs and connect said wiring to deep inside the base of the new SLLPs? Bear in mind these melonfarmers are buried very deep!
End of the financial year – budgets have to be used up.
Your old SLLPs look to be the old-fashioned concrete ones. I think after many years, these start to deteriorate and bits fall off.
Supplanted IS a good word 🙂