Windsor's city-wide $16.6-million project to convert all of its street lights to LED technology is officially underway.
A launch event was held at St. Rose Catholic Elementary School in the city on Wednesday.
City Solicitor and project sponsor Shelby Askin Hager calls it a large project for the city.
"It really moves us forward," says Askin Hager. "It's a really exciting thing and it's something that people can see going into their neighbourhoods and it's going to be a great savings for us."
The city expects to save $32-million in maintenance and energy use over the next 15 years.
Asking Hager thinks residents will better enjoy the new LED street lights.
"It illuminates the ground and the travel portion of the roadway and the sidewalks much better than the HPS lights. It's something that we can control and we can definitely make sure it's a much more uniform light than we're getting right now," says Asking Hager.
Just over 22,000 of the high pressure sodium street lights are to be changed by the project's targeted end date in late 2016.
