More than 3,000 lamps installed in city streets

More than 3,000 lamps installed in city streets

JAKARTA (JP): The city administration has installed more than 3,000 street lamps in five mayoralties in the current fiscal year, a city official said yesterday.

Niazie Gani, the head of the city's illumination agency, told reporters that 2,900 mercury lamps will be installed in residential areas in the city's five mayoralties.

In addition, each mayoralty will be also get 40 street lamps for its main streets, and 300 lamps for medium and small streets, he said.

So far about 70 percent of the total have been installed.

He acknowledged that priority was given to residential areas because these areas are the biggest part of the capital, he added.

He said that every year, 60 percent of the lamps required by the administration are installed at residential areas. The other 40 percent go for street illumination.

He said that the agency has targeted installation of 125,000 street lamps by 2,000.

"What we have done so far is to meet the city's basic requirements. We have yet to think about turning the capital into a city of lights," he told reporters who accompanied him and the city councilors supervising street lamps in Johar Baru subdistrict, Central Jakarta. (32)