The Town of Tecumseh is the latest municipality to make the switch to LED streetlights, and it's not going to cost anywhere near what council thought it would.
The town budgeted $1.2-million, but the winning tender, Phillips Canada, will do it for $687,041.
Tecumseh Mayor Gary McNamara says lighting the streets at night is no small cost to the municipality.
"We pay $300,000 a year putting lights up in the community," he says.
The conversion to LED lights will start this spring.
McNamara says there're many good reasons why the town should move ahead on it.
"Number one, the cost to the taxpayers. Second, light pollution reduction," he says. "And also the whole issue of climate change and reducing our carbon footprint in our community."
The one concern McNamara had was adaptability with new technology, and he was assured the lights will not be obsolete in a few years time.
