... I am a shite driver. Your own post said as much. No it didn't. I said it was _easier_ on the lit motorway. In the same way that it's _easier_ to drive on an empty M40 through northern Oxfordshire at 6am on a Sunday morning than driving on the M8 through Glasgow at 6pm on a dark and wet winter's weekday night (heavy traffic moving at 50, rather than stationary). You can't deny ...

...in winter. Not many, however, would see the point in lighting up a motorway in broad daylight. Yet that is exactly what has been happening on a one-mile stretch of the M40 after a set of sensors went wrong..." More: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_arti... -- World Carfree Network http://www.worldcarfree.net/...

... home in winter. Not many, however, would see the point in lighting up a motorway in broad daylight. Yet that is exactly what has been happening on a one-mile stretch of the M40 after a set of sensors went wrong..." More: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=514673&in_page_id=1770 -- World Carfree Network http://www....

... broad daylight. Yet that is exactly what has been happening on a one-mile stretch of the M40 after a set of sensors went wrong..." However, my local council is considering switching the street lights out... away from urban areas and the M5 (most of it), and the same is true (IIRC) of the M40. I don't get onto the M5 often enough to say, but I'm fairly certain that the ...

... to J32? M1 isn't, huge swathes of the M62 aren't, the M55 isn't, large parts of the M69 aren't, likewise the M74 etc etc etc. M4 is unlit for most of the way west of Reading. M40 largely unlit north of about J4, etc. It's only when you get to the Midlands that most of the motorways are lit. "Most"? I don't think so. As has been said, it's down to traffic levels and ...

... Not many, however, would see the point in lighting up a motorway in broad daylight. Yet that is exactly what has been happening on a one-mile stretch of the M40 after a set of sensors went wrong..." However, my local council is considering switching the street lights out after a certain time each night . No doubt driven by an effort to ...

... Not many, however, would see the point in lighting up a motorway in broad daylight. Yet that is exactly what has been happening on a one-mile stretch of the M40 after a set of sensors went wrong..." However, my local council is considering switching the street lights out after a certain time each night . No doubt driven by an effort to save money ...

...> Not many, however, would see the point in lighting up a motorway in broad daylight. Yet that is exactly what has been happening on a one-mile stretch of the M40 after a set of sensors went wrong..." However, my local council is considering switching the street lights out after a certain time each night . No doubt driven by an effort to save money on ...

Doug wrote: Not many, however, would see the point in lighting up a motorway in broad daylight. Yet that is exactly what has been happening on a one-mile stretch of the M40 after a set of sensors went wrong..." However, my local council is considering switching the street lights out after a certain time each night . No doubt driven by an effort to save money on it's ...

... home in winter. Not many, however, would see the point in lighting up a motorway in broad daylight. Yet that is exactly what has been happening on a one-mile stretch of the M40 after a set of sensors went wrong..." More: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=514673&in_page_id=1770 Why don't you shine a light on the reason you still ...