After the western part, it is now on the eastern part of the Bordeaux ring road that public lighting will be turned off at night, from Monday November 21, announced the prefecture of Gironde.
This includes the section of the ring road which passes through Gradignan, Villenave d'Ornon, Bègles, Bouliac, Floirac, Cenon, Artigues, Lormont, and part of Bordeaux.
"The State is carrying out energy sobriety actions on the major infrastructures for which it is responsible, justifies the prefecture, it is in this context that the Interdepartmental Directorate of Atlantic Roads (DIRA) will proceed with the extinction of the lighting public on the ring road.
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Lighting maintained in certain places for road safety reasons
This measure should make it possible “to save 1,400 MWh per year, or the equivalent of the annual consumption of 300 households, and will contribute to the efforts expected at times when the peak of electrical energy consumption is the most intense” assures the prefecture.
Switching off the public lighting on the ring road “will also contribute to reducing light pollution in the conurbation.
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However, the lighting will not be completely switched off.
For reasons of road safety for users, "the lighting will be switched off in the current section but will be maintained at the right of the major motorway interchanges, as well as on the two major structures crossing the Garonne, the Aquitaine bridge and the François bridge. Mitterrand” specifies the prefecture.
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