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Lighting Varia dons a Danger

11th September 1959
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ABRUPT changes in the kind of illumination provided where the areas of two local authorities meet is one of the main points made in an interim report issued by the Consultative Committee set up to consider the lighting of main traffic routes in Greater London.

There was one case where a main road formed a boundary between two local authorities. On one side it was illuminated by lighting differing substantially in height, type and lumen value from that on the other side. It was obvious that sudden changes and variations in lighting were fatiguing for drivers.

The Committee is also critical of a et, tendency among some local authorities to reduce street lighting in areas where a large measure of illumination comes from shops. The report comments that there were considerable variations in the amount of light from various shops and that no local authority had a right to extraneous street lighting.

Conditions in the London area, says the report, were such that all lights on traffic routes should remain on for the whole period between lighting up and lights off times. It also made the comment that if a suitable road surface of light colour and fine texture were laid it would be a great advantage for lighting.

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Organisations: Consultative Committee
Locations: London

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