ditch_jockey:
riding-lights are indeed an excellent idea, i have some, they’re ace.
but they don’t really help at the bmx track, or people having a kick-around in the park, or outdoor climbing, or sailing, or … etc.
this brilliant country of ours is (not?) dealing with an alarming increase of stupidity related fatness.
i don’t know how many fat people would do half an hour of exercise 2 or 3 times a week if they had a bit more time to do it in – but one way to find out is to give it a go.
how many fat people are there in the uk? – about 30,000,000? if 1% were persuaded to turn off X-factor and go for a walk every now and then, that would be 300,000 less fat people, that’s 300,000 people who don’t risk getting their feet amputated through diabetes related complications.
how many teenage boys are there in the uk? 4million? how many more will go to bed knackered because they’ve been razzing round the bmx track for an extra 3 nights a week, 6 months of the year? – rather than getting listless, bored and (self)destructive because it’s dark and the track doesn’t have flood lights.
etc.
yes, it will get dark in winter – it already does. But we also have ‘excess’ daylight in the mornings for much of the year which we don’t make much use of, i don’t honestly know if changing the clocks will change much, but i think it’s worth trying.
it’s a very cheap fix to some very expensive problems, and if it doesn’t work, we can undo it quickly and cheaply.