Dutch motorways without lighting. Dangerous?

Posted on 27-08-2013 at 9:40 by ricardo – 89 Comments”

It is dark on the highway. From september Rijkswaterstaat the switch and goes to a large part of the Dutch motorways the lighting either 21:00 or to 23:00 off, until the next morning 05:00. “Life-threatening”, according to people who know about light in the dark.

With this action, the government saves in 7 years time for 35 million euros on energy costs. BAM! Budget deficit immediately gedic.. oh, wait.

But now there is less light will shine on busy motorways like the A1, A2, A4, A12 and A27 stirs the Dutch Society for Sleep – Wake Research (NSWO) in The Telegraph. In the newspaper to Wake up from the Netherlands warns NSWO-chairman and neurologist Hans Burger for the danger of driving in the dark. Because dark = brain melatomine create, and of melatomine you fall asleep. “And if people sleepy, the majority of accidents occur.” Thus Hamburger. In addition, the lighting there in the sixties and seventies, has come to advance road safety.

But how relevant is that? With a little bit of modern lighting system in the nose of your car will need less lighting on the Lord’s ways in our booklet does not immediately result in a problem. Solid xenonpitten, the taillights of your predecessor to follow and have the ability to drive a car. Wouldn’t that be enough? In addition, both Safe Traffic Netherlands, the ANWB have with the plan agreed.

In addition, on the Veluwe and in the East of the country are highways for years is no longer illuminated in the wee hours of the morning. It is not as if there a tsunami of poor visibility accidents came from.

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