MAIN ROUTE LIGHTING

Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27794, 20 October 1955, Page 7

MAIN ROUTE LIGHTING

CENTRAL AUTHORITY PROPOSED It was desirable that responsibility for .main traffic route lighting should be m the hands of an authority concerned with the lighting of all main x? ad xT throughout New Zealand, said Mr N. A. Davidson in his presidential i? ss . to the Electric Supply Authority Engineers’ Institute last evening. b uch an arrangement would be equitable because expenditure would charge on the community as a whole, he said. Standard and uniform quality lighting would be in force on all main roads, and standardisation of street lighting equipment could mean bulk ordering, with a conseouent reduction in cost. The authority would have resources to carry out r ”->erii ents on new street lighting developments, he said. The mos + dangerous sections could be dealt vv.rb first. The arrangement would also facilitate co-uperatior. between roading and lighting authorities on such problems as the lighting characteristic? of road surfaces “The crux of the whole matter is cost, which should be viewed in relationship to the total expenditure on construction and maintenance of our roeds ” said Mr Davidson. “It should tt set against the saving in. human !i and in ury and reduction of material damage. In addition, good -treet light ng ha other less tangible 'enefits *’

It was not suggested that the only actor in the solution of the problem the toll of the road was better tree* lighting he sa’d, but no greater ontribution could be made to road afe‘y at night than the provision of : chting to an adeouate standard on am urban traf routes

“Better li«ht. better sight,” should e the camnairn for all roads and treet of New Zealand, he said.