Streetlights installed in Levuka to improve street safety

The Fiji Roads Authority has installed 59 streetlights, replacing old and failing lamps in Levuka to improve street safety.

FRA General Manager for Network Operations and Maintenance Aram Goes says these streetlights will increase safety in neighbour-hoods and reduce car and pedestrian accidents.

Goes says that they are using the LED lights as it consumes less energy whilst producing brighter, whiter lights, improving the visual consistency across the network.

He says that the FRA is progressively phasing out the inefficient yellow coloured lamps and the non‑environmentally friendly Mercury Vapour lamps through its reactive maintenance and renewal works.

Goes adds that while delays in attending to more remote towns such as Levuka and other smaller municipalities across Fiji is inevitable, the quality of the streetlight fittings and wiring workmanship has improved significantly over the past three and a half years

He says that the new and improved LED streetlights are part of the annual programme for streetlight maintenance and renewal works carried out by the FRA contractors.

Meanwhile the areas in Ovalau that were worked on by Prime Fiji Limited includes: Delana Village, Baba Village, Garner Jones Street, Kalaba Street, Butcher Street, Totoga Lane and Veiuto Road.