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Do you think Bend needs more street lights?
KTVZ Asked by KTVZ
429 Votes

Do you think Bend needs more street lights?

Yes, for safety!

9

No, it's been fine.

7

Yes, for safety!

7 Comments
poor turtle
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poor turtle

I'm for this if they are designed to limit their light pollution and just light what they need to. No need for excess

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k san
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k san

In some neighborhoods, most definitely! Dark neighborhoods are havens for crime. Light dissuades crime.

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Bob Yetter
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Bob Yetter

I see lots of comments on nextdoor about car prowling, break-ins and vandalism. There are over 200 homes in our development and not one single street light! I keep all my outdoor lights on all night.

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Kerie Raymond
Kerie Raymond

Studies show that increased light does not increase safety. Just wasting energy, disrupting birds, people's ability to sleep, and pollutes the night sky.

Raymond Meskill
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Raymond Meskill

we all like to see.

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Cathy Green Horinek
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Cathy Green Horinek

Especially along 97, where there are curves, and at exits or entrances to the parkway.

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JohnWayne Kenneth Pool
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JohnWayne Kenneth Pool

There are definitely streets or stretches of that could be better lit up. I walk frequently and it would make me more comfortable.

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Vernon Budd
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Vernon Budd

These moron's won't read them anyway they don't read the exciting one's

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Bob A. Bui
Bob A. Bui

The “morons” won’t “read” the streetlights? LOL.

No, it's been fine.

5 Comments
Brad Livsey
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Brad Livsey

No lights! More roundy-rounds, they're fun, don't you know!

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Deb Dyck
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Deb Dyck

We don't need more light pollution!

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Mark Dierbeck
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Mark Dierbeck

Dark skies are important

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Kerie Raymond
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Kerie Raymond

I support dark sky compliance. Light pollutes the night sky making it hard for migrating birds, observing the stars, and sleeping! Studies show that light does not increase safety.

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Kerie Raymond
Kerie Raymond

I'm encouraged that the City of Bend is replacing lamps with LED lamps that will use less power, emit less heat, and are dark sky compliant by pointing down, not out or up, preserving the night sky.

Ashley Wilson
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Ashley Wilson

It’s fine the way it is. We are not a huge city. We have made it the past 30 years I have been here.

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Bob Yetter
Bob Yetter

Yes, but it's grown significantly. I see lots of comments on Nextdoor about car prowling, break-ins and vandalism. More street lights may help minimize this. We do not have a single street light.

Do you support a record $1.5 trillion budget for the military?

Do you support a record $1.5 trillion budget for the military?

Yes

3

No

2

Yes

1 Comments
Dave
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Dave

Looks like the ayes have it.

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No

2 Comments
Oakley Taylor
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Oakley Taylor

We need that money in our own country to help our schools, Medicare and education. Don’t you care about our neighbors and communities?

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Dave
Dave

That money won't help our neighbors and schools when Iranian nukes start hitting our allies and eventually us! That is their goal as they have stated for years!!

Ka San
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Ka San

If it even needs saying, the Military Industrial Complex is the MOST bloated budget of the entire federal budget. If our current "completely-in-over-his-head" Def Sec + idiot prez hadn't started a completely unnecessary war, we would not have depleted stores of weapons and this be on nobody's radar!

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Dave
Dave

Ka San, You sound like a radical liberal. Guess you'd rather have nukes start flying around in the middle east and then closer to home in a couple years.

Do you think sweeps and hostile architecture are effective ways to remove camps?

Do you think sweeps and hostile architecture are effective ways to remove camps?

Yes

1

No

0

Yes

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Kate Coffey
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Kate Coffey

As a tax payer and resident of Deschutes County I am tired of my tax dollars being used to clean up the filth the homeless people leave behind. If this is a deterrent for them living there then we won’t have to clean it up again. Thus saving tax payer dollars and the rocks are a better look.

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No

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