After noticing a number of street lights were past their prime sometime ago, SaskPower and the city of Moose Jaw agreed there needed to be upgrades in the near future. 

Monday was the start date for a two month long project that SaskPower crews have embarked on and they will be spending a large amount to "improve streetlight reliability."

"Infrastructure is aging and we've had the funds allotted for the last few years so this was all a part of the plan," explained Deanna Orpen, SaskPower's Operations and Maintenance Manager for Swift Current East. 

 Due to the high number of light standards that require replacement, this project will be spread over the next few months. 

"There are 40 street lights all together; the project is estimated at $350,000 and that's just for Main Street. SaskPower is doing a lot of other work around the city in the next number of years; we're aiming to have the whole city to have LED lighting in the next five years. I think it's about 1 million dollars in the next two years that we'll be investing."

Although this project is lengthy, crews are doing their best not to disrupt pedestrians, businesses and drivers according to Orpen. 

"Once we get into Main Street, we'll be blocking it off one block at a time, we'll get into the sidewalk, replace the cable, replace the streetlights, update the streetlights to LED and get out by the end of June."

So far there's one street light that has been upgraded on the corner of High Street and Main Street, with the rest to follow suit shortly. 

The first phase is set to run until the 25th of April on the east side of Main Street from Manitoba to High Street, and from there crews will work north along the east side before they switch the west side at Caribou Street and work their way back south again on the adjacent side.