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Show ROAD LIGHTING URGED. i Electric lighting of country high-: high-: ways to increase their efficiency, reduce re-duce accid'nts and aid night flying ; is urged in a proposal by Louis J. Brooks, a prominent Missouri farmer and first president of the state's hard road association. The idea is said to have been favor-' favor-' ably received by federal, state and county highway officials, many of whom feel that the lighting of roads is a logical forward step in the development de-velopment of the nation's highway ' system. Electrical engineers recommend powerful roadway lamps placed at intervals in-tervals of 100 yards, which it is es-, es-, timated would add about five per cent to the average cost of paved highways. high-ways. Special legislation w;ould be required to permit lighting to be included in expenditures for roads, it is said, but already three states New York, New Jersey and Georgia have laws authorizing au-thorizing such expenditures in the more populous counties. Detroit claims to have already 345 miles of lighted rural highways in its vicinity. It seems that road lighting would fit in admirably with the general program pro-gram of rural electrification which is now going forward rapidly in many states. |
