Radio towers all over the country are protected with red dimmer lights. Show me one study that proves that planes crash more frequently into radio towers protected with red dimmer lights than with white strobe lights.
Jay Clark Cooper Dyna Sluyter wrote: > > First off, for those who are loosing sleep over the prospect of cell > phone towers in Minneapolis parks, you can rest easy- it probably won't > happen. For the quoted $15,000 a year lease rate the cell companies can > find a lot better sites than our parks. For a start, I'll offer my roof > for a thousand less and supplement my retirement! There are only a few > potential "hilltop" sites in our parks that have much value, > unfortunately, given our Park Board finances. As for appearance, it is > possible to build cell tower that look like anything but cell towers. > > So the NIMBYs can relax and worry instead about a micro hydro plant > destroying the Corp of Engineers handiwork, St. Anthony Falls... > > On Sunday, April 11, 2004, at 12:59 PM, Jay Clark wrote: > > > I would like to make a request for any cell phone towers on park > > property: > > > > Please put red dimmer lights on top of the towers, not white strobe > > lights. > > Sorry, but the FAA decides what color lights go on top of towers. > While it would be entertaining to let our Park Board light up the city > like a christmas tree with their choice of colors, it would be quite > confusing to pilots. > > > I think those strobe lights are ghastly to look at, and can destroy > > otherwise beautiful night-time scenes. > > Airplane crash scenes are even uglier. > > > Try standing on the hill at Farview park at night, and look at downtown > > Minneapolis. The view is badly damaged by the nauseous strobe lights > > on > > top of the garbage burner. > > An academic issue, because it isn't safe to wander about Farview Park > at night anyway. > > > And hasn't anybody driven at night along, say, I-90, enjoying the > > brilliant starry sky, only to have the scene destroyed by epileptic > > pulsing white strobe lights blasting away? > > Those of us who drive a lot at night appreciate the lights- they give > us landmarks to chart our progress by. If you're not familiar with the > road they also give you an idea of a town's size and likelyhood of > services, etc.. > > > Maybe I am the only person on the planet who thinks that these white > > strobe lights are ugly visual air pollution, but please save us. > > No, please save us from air crashes and such. > > > Jay Clark > > Cooper > > > > P.S. Responding to urgent queries from concerned Nokomis residents: > > the loons I saw waddling around Lake Nokomis are of the winged variety, > > not the two-legged variety. > > > > P.P.S. Weird bird update. As of 8:00 P.M. last night, there were > > still > > loons on Lake Nokomis. > > Their ancient and melancholy calls pierce straight to my heart. They > > have been joined by pie-billed grebes and flocks of mergansers. Great > > blue herons have also made their first majestic appearance. And while > > not quite qualifying as weird birds, I have also seen bats darting > > around street lights at 50th and Woodlawn. > > > > A hint for those who enjoy watching great blue herons: go out to Lake > > Nokomis (or Harriet, Calhoun, Grass, etc.) after 10:00 P.M., and > > unobrusively approach a street lamp that is near the water. There is a > > good chance that you will see a great blue heron in the water opposite > > the street lamp. I think the herons are using the light from the > > street > > lamps to help them hunt for fish at night. > > REMINDERS: > > 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. > > 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. > > > > For state and national discussions see: > > http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html > > For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract > > ________________________________ > > > > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn > > E-Democracy > > Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls > > REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
