LIGHTED HIGHWAYS
A STRONG ADVOCATE
In reference to New York's plan to spend 12,000,000. dollars annually for the elimination of level crossings of streets, i.e., carrying roads under and over each other, an engineer attached to one of America's big lighting concerns declares that this money, if spent on street lighting, would prevent ten thousand accidents a year, against 151 achieved by the separation of the street levels. He bases his estimate on comparative figures for lighted and unlighted highways. He specifically mentions that night accidents decreased more than 36 per cent, on the Troy-Schenectady Road after lights were installed, while day accidents increased 9 per cent. Night' accidents more than doubled on the Mount Vernon Highway, near Washington, when lighting was discontinued.
About 135,000,000 dollars, or a little more than 5 per cent, of the cost of the highways, would illuminate the 50,000 miles of road now dangerously dark, he said.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 10, 11 July 1936, Page 28
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152LIGHTED HIGHWAYS Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 10, 11 July 1936, Page 28
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