Rajshahi city dwellers got another illuminated street as the city corporation brought it under modern street lighting on Friday evening.
City Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton accompanied by his office colleagues and others concerned switched on the street lights from the Talaimary crossing to Sericulture Board via Bhadra crossing.
The Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has installed 13 decorated and eye-catching LED lights on each of the 110 poles on the island of the 2.1-kilometre road.
Mayor Liton said the energy-saving lights at Drishtinandan will be turned on and off automatically through the mobile app.
A few days back, the city corporation switched on the street lights from the Terakhadia crossing to City Hat crossing as it has installed 218 decorated and eye-catching LED lights on 109 poles on the island of the 3.53-kilometre road.
The city corporation has been elevating the Bilsimla railway crossing to City Hat street road to a four-lane aimed at making the movement of both vehicles and people quick and smooth.
The RCC is turning the road to 80-foot wide along with a four-foot wide road divider with an outlay of around Tk 44.92 crore as part of RCC's Tk 2,993 crore project titled “Integrated Urban Infrastructure Development in Rajshahi City.”
Earlier, the city corporation installed 1,654 decorated and eye-catching lights on 695 poles in five separate roads and streets with a length of around 21 kilometres. Apart from this, 15 important road crossings were also brought under the lighting facilities.
Mayor Liton said they have installed and launched the modern lighting system on the 4.2-kilometre Bilsimla-Kasiadanga road to ensure the security of people and vehicles during the night-time movement in the city.
A total of 174 altitude decorative poles were installed with 384 power-saving LED bulbs in the shape of flying butterflies at a cost of around Tk 5.22 crore.
To make Rajshahi city more bright and attractive at night, high-altitude floodlights were installed in the city streets.
Liton said the road has recently been elevated to a four-lane from 30 feet to 80 feet wide with 10 feet wide footpaths and concrete drains on both sides of the road at a cost of around Tk 52.75 crore.
There is also an eight-foot bicycle lane on the southern side of the road.
A decorative island has been constructed while trees were already planted on the island to bring a greenery look there, he said.
