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20/07/2010
The lights will be turned out on a section of the M6 in Lancashire for the first time tonight, in a bid to cut down on carbon emissions and light pollution.
Lighting will be turned off between junctions 27 and 29 - Standish and Lostock Hall - every night from midnight until 5am, though the Highways Agency stresses that junctions themselves and the approach to them will continue to be lit.
A similar move took place between junctions 21 and 22 of the M4 near Bristol, and junctions 29 and 30 of the M5 near Exeter in March last year.
Billed as the first phase in the Highways Agency's Efficiency Strategy for Road Lighting, the body said that such schemes would only be put into place on sections which experienced low levels of traffic and good safety records.
Motorway lighting switch-offs have also taken place in Kent, Berkshire and Hampshire.
The Highways Agency - which manages and maintains the motorway and trunk road network in England - says that the lights are controlled by a timing device, but made clear that its regional control centre near junction 23 of the road can override the mechanism.
In October 2008 the AA spoke out about what it claimed was an increasing number of local authorities
"secretly" switching off street lighting in their area.
Predicting an increase in the numbers of accidents, president Edmund King said: "In the dark, drivers' reactions tend to be slower and stopping distances longer."
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