Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1916 — Arrangement of Street Lamps. [ARTICLE]

Arrangement of Street Lamps.

A recent investigation of the relative merits of parallel and staggered arrangement of street lamps is most interesting, since it discloses that from an ornamental viewpoint the former Is preferable, while, from a utilitarian viewpoint, the latter is preferable under certain conditions. By parallel arrangement is meant the placing of lamps so that they come opposite each other, while staggered arrangement means that the lamps on one side of a street are placed so as to come half way between those on the opposite side. In general, the staggered arrangement furnishes more uniform illumination. However, where the street width is not much greater than the distance between lamp standards, the parallel arrangement is preferable. In instances where’the street width is considerably greater than the spacing of the lamps, the staggered arrangement will give the best results. —Scientific American.