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Traffic signals in Bahrain to go LED by next year

By DT News Network. T he final phase of the installation of LED traffic lights that will help reduce the chances of accidents will be completed by early 2016. All traffic signals in Bahrain will be upgraded to include new LED lights, which are expected to bring down the chances of failure in traffic

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Published 27 October 2015, 8:00 · Updated 22:13

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Traffic signals in Bahrain to go LED by next year

The final phase of the installation of LED traffic lights that will help reduce the chances of accidents will be completed by early 2016.

All traffic signals in Bahrain will be upgraded to include new LED lights, which are expected to bring down the chances of failure in traffic lights. The BD513,330 project will cover the entire nation and will be completed in eight months.

The Phase 1 of the project was completed in October 2014; costing BD479,820, and comprised of replacing lights in 136 traffic signals. The total number of traffic signals in Bahrain now is 325. Previously, there were 74 LED traffic signals.

In an interview with DT News yesterday, Roads Planning and Design Director at the Ministry of Works, Kadhim Abdul Latif revealed the important new features of the system which will help keep the roads safe.

“The older generation of traffic lights have a short life span and are subjected to failures due to various reasons. It carries a risk as it is more prone to failure in certain circumstances, which could cause inconvenient or even dangerous situations.”

“The new technology dramatically reduces such risks, it has a long life, it lasts up to eight years and would not fail that easily. For the old traffic signal, in certain times humid weather causes water droplets to get inside the lights and the lights gets damaged. Now, with the new traffic signals, we are sure that this will not happen again.”

“The lights are brighter and also more economical, it consumes only 25 per cent ofthe power consumption of the traditional traffic lights,” he explained. With positive results and feedback from the initial phase, the Ministry will now go forward with the final stage, which will cover all areas of Bahrain.

“We will start in November and it will take at-least eight months to install them because there are a lot of factors we need to consider during installation period. We need to make arrangements to have traffic police present at the scene to divert traffic, we need to consider the flow of traffic because we will not install them during the peak hours, we cannot install them during bad weather either,” he added.

Reported by:DT News Network

Traffic signals in Bahrain to go LED by next year

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