Uniformity of Street Lighting Urged
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THE suggestion that inadequate street lighting is an important cause of road accidents was made by Aid. W. E. Wilford, chairman of Leicester Watch Committee, speaking at Cheltenham on Tuesday last, at the annual conference of the Association of Public Lighting Engineers. He advocated the payment of grants from the Road Fund to ensure adequate, efficient and continuous lighting of main routes all over the country.
He was giving the layman's point of view on the interim report of the Departmental Committee on Street Lighting.
If the suggestions of the committee were carried out it would mean that for the first time in this country public lighting was regarded as a necessary public service.Hitherto, the standard of lighting had depended on the outlook, enterprise and financial position
of the local authority. In consequence, the country had endured variations in the standards of lighting in different parts of the country.
Aid. Wilford said that, "From a traffic standpoint the country must be regarded as a whole. Modern fast traffic has wiped out all local municipal and county boundaries. The volume of heavy commercial traffic at night is enormous."
He added that, "Uniformity of lighting as shown by the report and proved by experience cannot now be confined to our towns and cities. It must prevail throughout the whole length of our traffic routes."
Md. Wilford advocated the establishment, of separate lighting departments by all' local authorities with 100,000 or more inhabitants and nig-, gested the formation of a lighting research board