Hanoi People’s Committee has issued a plan to invest trillions of dongin upgrading the public lighting system around city from 2014 to 2020.
Under the plan, new lighting systems will be built at a cost ofover 2,100 billion VND (100 million USD) for roads in the city’s urbanand rural districts and towns as well as for alleys in streets andvillages, with the aim of ensuring lighting for all urban roads and 80percent of rural roads.
At the same time, the existinglighting systems will be upgraded with old technologies replaced at anestimated cost of more than 500 billion VND (23.8 million USD). A 45billion VND control centre will also be built.
Furthermore, the city will also apply solutions to save electric consumption.
At present, Hanoi has one of the best public lighting systems inthe country, which covers 2,876 kilometres of its roads, half of whichare city streets.
However, only 28 percent of the city’slights, mostly in downtown areas, are controlled by the main centre,while the remaining 72 percent are managed by local control panels,limiting the ability to adjust the time of lighting. In addition, thesystem still use overhead electrical wires, which is both unsafe andunsightly.-VNA
Under the plan, new lighting systems will be built at a cost ofover 2,100 billion VND (100 million USD) for roads in the city’s urbanand rural districts and towns as well as for alleys in streets andvillages, with the aim of ensuring lighting for all urban roads and 80percent of rural roads.
At the same time, the existinglighting systems will be upgraded with old technologies replaced at anestimated cost of more than 500 billion VND (23.8 million USD). A 45billion VND control centre will also be built.
Furthermore, the city will also apply solutions to save electric consumption.
At present, Hanoi has one of the best public lighting systems inthe country, which covers 2,876 kilometres of its roads, half of whichare city streets.
However, only 28 percent of the city’slights, mostly in downtown areas, are controlled by the main centre,while the remaining 72 percent are managed by local control panels,limiting the ability to adjust the time of lighting. In addition, thesystem still use overhead electrical wires, which is both unsafe andunsightly.-VNA
