Motorway carriageway lighting: Highways Agency announces trials switch off between midnight and 0500
Tuesday 17th March 2009The Highways Agency has announced plans to trial switching off carriage lights on stretches of the motorway network in the South west of England.
Lighting on the M4 between Junctions 21 and 22 near Bristol will be switched off from midnight until 5am from the morning of Thursday March 26, and lighting on the M5 between Junctions 29 - 30 near Exeter is set to be switched off from midnight until 5am from Thursday April 16. The motorway junctions will remain lit. The stretches have been identified as having light levels of traffic during the night-time period.
