Lights to go out on motorway
Lighting on a section of the M27 is to be switched off to reduce carbon emissions and light pollution.
The Highways Agency has announced lighting between junctions seven, Hedge End and eight, Bursledon, will be switched off between midnight and 5am from Thursday morning.
Jon Griffiths, Highway Agency network operations director in the south east, said: 'We're looking for ways to reduce the carbon footprint of operating the motorway network and this is one step in that direction.
'This is the first of four sites where we are doing this in the South East, following a successful launch in the South West in March.
'We expect to achieve up to a 40 per cent saving in carbon emissions and energy use for each section of motorway where we do this, and local communities will benefit from reduced light pollution of the night sky.
'We have carefully chosen sites where the traffic flows are so low in the early hours that when taken together with the good safety record of the sites, there would be no case for installing new lighting if the decision was based on the overnight figures alone.'
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