LIGHTING APPROVED
Improvement In Nelson
(From Our Own Reporter) WELLINGTON, Dec. 11. The lighting of State Highway 6 in Nelson between Auckland Point and Poynters crescent was approved this afternon by the National Roads Board.
The board agreed to pay the full installation cost of £3550, provided the local authority agrees to meet the annual maintenance and running charges as a subsidised work. The chief highways engineer (Mr F. A. Langbein) told the board that this section of city street, 87 chains long, was lit by 100-watt tungsten lamps in open reflectors, “at considerable spacings to a very poor standard." The average weekly peakhour volume of traffic in winter was about 550 vehicles an hour.
There had been an average of three accidents a year in which persons had been injured.
The approved installation is for ltd-watt sodium lanterns at a mounting height of 25 feet. The annual cost is expected to be about £3BO.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30312, 12 December 1963, Page 22
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