COLOURED ROADS

Shannon News, 10 June 1927, Page 3

COLOURED ROADS

Road - engineers have discovered that it is possible to mix colour tints with the texture of the new hard pavement surfaces. Red concrete, -roads have made their appearance In the United States. Recently a British ‘ firm experimented with a pink road, and they ; are now discussing the possibility of laying a length of highway brighl green In colour. Visibility is very bad on some roads at night when they are wet and their shiny surfaces too often dazzle drivers ~ by day when the sun is strong. Would coloured roads remedy these - defects ? Would they help to solve , the dazzle light problem ? These are . points which are being considered by road engineers. ; An official of the Royal Automobile -■ Club of Great Britain says:— " I should imagine that red roads would be most trying ,to the eyes of drivers. A green road might well prove very soothing and. pleasing. It - ■ would considerably dull the driving light, but it might reduce the dazzle, i effect of head lights. “I rather favour a primrose coloured road, which would show up well at night and would be far preferable to the dark coloured roads.” C