Chennai: The Chennai corporation is speeding up the process of changing sodium vapour lights to LEDs on bus route roads, ahead of the Global Investors Meet here, scheduled for September. The project has been planned to achieve 20 per cent energy saving. This would not only reduce the power bill of the local body, but also increase the life span of streetlights, sources say.
The Chennai corporation has planned to change the lights on Cathedral Road and on arterial roads in Anna Nagar, Teynampet, Royapuram and Thiru Vi Ka Nagar. This will increase visibility for road users, besides giving an attractive look to city roads. The local body’s initiative is part of the Chief Minister’s announcement in 2013 that 1,10,000 new lampposts with LEDs and with other improvised technology will be erected in the city at an estimated cost of about Rs 300 crore. Foll-owing this, the lampposts and lights are being installed in a phased manner every year.
Nearly Rs 30 crore has been set apart to install 7,127 lampposts and lights this financial year. The local body has also planned to instal LEDs at the Kathipara junction at a cost of Rs14 lakh, the sources say.
