In message , at
00:42:59 on Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Martin Underwood remarked:

I presume the spacing is a maximum of 200 yards apart

The rules (which have rotted off the dtlr site according to the urlI
used to have) are almost certainly couched in metres. An up to date cite
for the exact numbers would be useful.

*on the same side of the road* and that typically
street lights are interspersed on opposite sides of the road so in reality
there are lights (on one side of the road or the other) every 100 yards.

That's a very good question. Similarly for lights on the verge
interspersed between the verge and a central reservation.

I'll check my HC tomorrow - and pace out the spacing of the street lights on
my road when I go to post a letter.

What are the rules about the visibility of speed limit signs? Even in
November, with few leaves on the trees, there are several signs which you
can only see when you get very close:

On the approach to the village I used to live in, the 30 sign was
entirely inside the (overgrown) hedge. There wasn't one the other side
of the road.
--
Roland Perry