The Fiji Roads Authority is aware that some street lights are going off at 4.30 in the morning and come on at 5.30pm when it is still daylight.
CEO John Hutchinson says the streetlights are normally set to operate between 6pm and 6am and it is quite possible that this light was last attended to during daylight saving where the technician may have adjusted the timing, and as a consequence is now going off at 4.30am.
He says the current streetlights have to be manually adjusted which is an extremely time consuming and costly exercise.
Hutchinson says the FRA has already sent out an instruction to its temporary contractor to adjust the timing to suit the present daylight hours when they are in the area undertaking maintenance works.
He says the innovative street-lighting solution will remove the present ineffective mode of operation by centrally controlling and monitoring the streetlights across Fiji once it’s fully implemented with the use of smart technology.
Some people have raised concerns that street lights go off at 4.30 in the morning when they come out of their houses for their morning-walk.
A resident of Namadi Heights has told Fijivillage that street lights in his area go off at 4.30 in the morning and this is when they go for their walk.
He says that they do not feel secure walking in the dark.
The residents have also questioned why street lights are turned on at 5.30pm when it is still daylight.
