Call for Motorways to be Lighted

26th September 1958, Page 120

26th September 1958

Page 120

Page 120, 26th September 1958 — Call for Motorways to be Lighted

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PROVISION of better lighting on roads has resulted in a reduction of 30 per cent, in accidents involving personal injury, say the Road Research Laboratory.

Commenting on this at the annual conference of the Association of Public Lighting Engineers, last week, Mr. Granville Berry, city engineer and surveyor of Coventry, claimed that improved lighting was the speediest and most economical form of minor road improvement.

He recommended that the proposed motorways should be lighted throughout their entire length. Compared with their estimated construction cost per mile of between £250,000 and £300,000, an extra £4,000 per mile for the addition of lighting of the dual-carriage ways was a modest expenditure.

The Association have asked the Minister of Transport to consider installing lighting experimentally on the Preston By-pass.

WILL LEICESTER MOVE BUSES FROM CENTRE?

riA REPORT on bus operation in the central area of Leicester is to be prepared by the corporation's general manager, Mr. J. Cooper, within the next six months. When this has been compiled the transport committee is expected to decide what line it will take on suggestions for moving buses away from the city centre to ease congestion.

Fresh ideas on traffic control are also being formulated by the watch and highways committees, who are expected to put forward their proposals shortly.

Previously the transport committee has rejected schemes for withdrawing buses from congested areas on the ground that the only result would be an increase in other traffic.

ULSTER FARES UP

.SOME fares and season ticket rates will Li be increased next Wednesday by the Ulster Transport Authority. The services affected are some taken over from the Great Northern Railway and those of Erne Bus Service. They are all in the Omagh-Enniskillen area.

TURIN SHOW' DATES

THE Turin show is to he held from November 5-16. There will be 12 makes of commercial vehicle, of which Bedford will be the only British repre; sentative. the remainder being Continental types.

HAULIER FINED £15 AOMITTING that he allowed drivers to commit hours and records offences, Henry Thompson, haulier, Kirkwood, Sauchen, was fined a total of £15 at Aberdeen last week. Four drivers were each fined £5.

LORRY SMOKE BRINGS SUMMONS

FOR allowing a lorry to emit black smoke, W. Crowther and Son, Little Lever (Lanes), were fined £5 at Bury last week. They pleaded that they were unaware of the fault in the vehicle.