In message of Sun, 4 Feb 2007
03:59:24 in uk.transport.london, John Rowland
writes
Richard J. wrote:
I drove along Westway (A40) on Thursday evening, and noticed that all
the lamp columns in the central reservation had been cut down, leaving
stumps about 3 metres high with the tops covered over with plastic.
This means that Westway is currently unlit apart from the slip roads.

Maybe something large is being brought into London, like a french
animatronic elephant.

I can't be bothered finding a URL for this story but believe that one
column fell in a recent storm and all were felled as a health and safety
measure. I look forward to mal-feasance or is it mis-feasance or
non-feasance cases when lack of lighting contributes to accidents.
--
Walter Briscoe