With the traffic lights out at the intersection of Main Street and Brandt Street in Steinbach this Friday afternoon, RCMP officers are directing traffic.

Reports that the traffic lights were not working rolled in around 4 p.m., just as rush hour traffic began to pick up. 

As of 4:25 p.m., the lights are still out and traffic has begun to back up as the RCMP officers do their best to keep things flowing.

The cause of the outage is not available at this time.