Puerto Morelos, Q.R. — More than 200 streetlights have been upgraded along a section of the federal highway. Personnel from the Public Lighting Department of Puerto Morelos made the changes in recent days to improve safety in the municipality.
The department of the Secretariat of Public Services are making progress in changing the lights on the busiest streets and avenues. To date, 250 lights were replaced from Super Aki to the La Esperanza roundabout. Another 55 lights are in the process of being replaced in the Puerto Marino subdivision.
Luis Enrique Mas Kumul, the Director of Public Lighting says the new LED lights comply with the Mexican Official Standard NOM-031-ENER-2019 and are part of the 1,200 planned throughout the municipality before the end of the year. The replacement is part of the modernization of the lighting network, he said.
“One of the recurring requests has been for lighting along Federal Highway 307, which we’ve already addressed with the replacement of 250 LED lights to increase safety along this stretch of highway. The initial phase includes the Super Aki interchange to the La Esperanza roundabout,” he explained.
The Puerto Morelos Brilla program seeks to modernize and make the municipality’s service infrastructure more efficient, particularly its public lighting, he continued. Of course, reports of lighting failures will also be efficiently addressed.
After recalling that the program’s first phase includes the replacement of 629 streetlights, Mas Kumul stated that in the Puerto Marino neighborhood, 32 of the 55 streetlights scheduled have already been replaced on Palmas, Koi and Océano avenues, as well as on Marlín, Pez Vela, Mantarraya and Coral streets.
With the installed lights, the new public lighting not only improves the illumination of streets and public spaces, but also contributes to citizen safety and a more conducive environment for family and neighborhood coexistence, he added.
As previously announced, the program will continue in areas such as Villas Morelos II, Tierra Nueva, La Fe, the Federal Highway bridge, the Leona Vicario district and the Central Vallarta and Delirios sub-districts where older OV-15 lamps are still used.
