Illumination items: By the lighting and illumination committee

Illumination helps to make highway travel easier at night. It helps to reduce traffic congestion, relieves eye-strain and assists in making repairs after dark. It increases night traffic and thereby relieves day congestion. It increases running time and thereby increases road capacity. Illumination of the road-bed at night would be a big factor in reducing traffic accidents. Data presented before the Illuminating Engineering Society in October by E. A. Anderson and O. F. Haas show that nearly 18 per cent of the night traffic accidents in cities can be attributed to inadequate or improper lighting, and obviously, the percentage of traffic accidents on country roads and highways due to poor lighting is much higher.