Middle East country Bahrain plans to initiate the second phase II of its LED Traffic Signals Project next month, said Kadhim Abdul Latif, Acting Roads Assistant Undersecretary at the Ministry of Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning.

The project plans to replace old lights at 115 interchanges and pedestrian signals with LED lights values US $1.36 million.

The new LED traffic lights installed will be humidity, heat and dust proofed. The lights long lifespan are also expected to cut maintenance costs for the Middle East country.

The LEDs are expected to save power consumption costs, and only consume a quarter of energy compared to conventional traffic lights.

Phase I of the project which involved replacing 136 traffic lights at a cost of US $1.27 million was completed in October in 2014. The country’s number of traffic lights has increased from 74 LED lights to 325 lights.