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Abigail Mawonde Harare Bureau
THE Harare City Council will install 10,000 solar streets lights by year end as it moves to become a World Class City by 2020, acting town clerk Josephine Ncube has said.

“The solar street lighting project is a very active project which we’re excited about because it’s going to enable us to light up the city in an affordable way,” Ncube said. “The project is in two phases. The first phase is going to comprise 10,000 street lights in various streets within the Central Business District. After that, we’ll now go into phase two, which will now take us into other roads which are not necessarily the major roads and which are not really in the CBD. So, you’ll see by the end of this year those 10,000 lights should be up.”

Bulawayo has not introduced solar technology for street lighting, but installed its first solar traffic light last year at the intersection of Cecil Road and Coghlan Road at a cost of $8,000.

Mayor Martin Moyo said they would soon switch to solar at all 90 traffic light-controlled intersections in the city.