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Commission questions street lighting benefits

04 December 2009
 

The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution has questioned whether all lighting on  roads can be justified.

Launching a new report on the topic, chair Sir John Lawton said: “We heard evidence that more light isn’t always better in terms of reducing the incidence of road traffic accidents.”

The DfT told the commission that lighting motorways between junctions has an accident reduction benefit in the order of 10%. The RCEP commented that lighting such roads “may...

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