Pink lights / Elephant & Castle

According to the Wikipedia page about the New Kent Road (so it must be true):

"The multi-coloured spherical lights in the trees next to the Heygate were installed in 2005 by the Elephant Impacts project. The project has repainted and added feature lighting to a number of bridges and buildings in the area, including the adjoining railway bridges on Walworth Road and Newington Causeway, and to London College of Communication and the Metropolitan Tabernacle. Proposed feature lighting at Metro Central Heights was abandoned when residents feared it would cause light pollution."

I think that the railway bridge on Newington Causeway looks very cool in its neon blue and green, although it is spoilt somewhat by graffiti. It would be good to see the same done for the bridge on Walworth Road, which would act as a gateway from the Tube stations.

Is that the block where McDonalds is, Walworther? I was passing there last week and remember thinking to myself that it must be a right royal pain if you live within light-polluting distance.

Do they leave them on all night, or switch them off so that local residents don't need blackout curtains?

yeah that's the one ruth. they come on at 4 and go off at 1230. i'm kind of used to it now and the sheer audacity and daftness of the display makes me chuckle. (they were on all night in the first year but i had a word about that!) i think southwark council genuinely has no idea that real people actually live on walworth road. they forgot to tell us about the year-long and sometimes all-night roadworks too. and they didn't consult me when they unearthed the mature tree outside my flat and replaced it with some twigs a couple of weeks ago. but now i'm sounding like a right old scrooge... if i had to be positive about the walworth road makeover i'd say that cllr kirsty o neill appears to be hard working and interested in walworth affairs. she just needs better officers. the new cycle hoops are cool too - and used!

I look out on those lights from my terrace and bedroom. Very festive.

jackie - i think you must mean the quite nice lamp post mounted red yellow and green lights that snake off all the way down WR. no problem with those. but the blue and white 'camera flash' on chatelaine house is another matter...

No, I mean that incredible blue and white facade...you can see it for miles. I dont have it blinking in my window admittedly, but it sort of marks the Christmas season every year....

Lang Rabbie wrote:

I walked along St George's Road for the first time in a year late yesterday afternoon, on my way to the poster propaganda exhibition at the IWM. It was a thoroughly depressing walk without the extra light the Elephant Impacts globes used to provide.
[The contrast between the crap ancient sodium lamps in the Southwark bit of Lambeth Road and the dramaticlly brighter lighting on the Lambeth side of the park is also a reproach to LB Southwark - the IWM must surely have reason to complain!]

Our London Assembly member is also concerned about the urban design around the Lambeth Road/St George's Road junction:
http://mqt.london.gov.uk/mqt/question.do?id=20705

James Hatts wrote:

Our London Assembly member is also concerned about the urban design around the Lambeth Road/St George's Road junction:
http://mqt.london.gov.uk/mqt/question.do?id=20705

Did the scheme from an earlier Elephant & Castle Masterplan for creating a new space in front of the RC Cathedral paid for by building new blocks of housing facing Lambeth Road on top of the Bakerloo Line carriage depot get dropped as too difficult/not feasible in engineering???