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Govt. now taking four-lane highway to Grove

Nov 22, 2009 News


– designs soon for alternative two-lane from Mandela Avenue






By Leonard Gildarie

Metal barriers are to be placed at all the dangerous turns along the East Bank Demerara roadway, according to Rickford Lowe, Co-ordinator of the Works Services Group (WSG).
Additionally, authorities who were initially looking to extend the four-lane highway from Providence to Diamond, East Bank Demerara now want to include neighbouring village of Golden Grove.
Already, measurements done to the public road in Grove have found that it is possible to build to extend the four lane highway to that village.
“What we may also have to do is build up the drains and add walkways.”
Lowe noted that the traffic situation in the Grove/Diamond area has been of much concern to the Ministry of Public Works.
With the development of the new Diamond/Golden Grove Housing Scheme, overnight, the traffic situation has been creating a headache along the East Bank Demerara roadway.
In the short term, new traffic lights are now being installed at the junction of the new schemes at Diamond but according to Lowe on Friday, the traffic situation and road network are being looked at from a long term point of view.
Designs are also expected to start for a two-lane alternative road from the “southern entrance” of Mandela Avenue to Diamond Village.
The official said that it is obvious that the East Bank roadway is unable to take off the traffic that is only expected to become heavier in coming years. With heavy traffic in concentration especially in the Grove/Diamond area, the idea is to route the alternative two-lane road from Mandela Avenue to Diamond where another access road south of the Demerara Distillers Limited is being looked at.
With two access roads to the new schemes, and both of them a one-way, the alternative road will considerably ease the congestion especially around the Demerara Harbour Bridge area.
The official also echoed pleadings of Minister of Public Works, Robeson Benn, who called for residents to be on the lookout for persons damaging road signs.
Millions of dollars have been spent overtime to install the signs. But an estimated 60% of the signs are now either gone or damaged.
Meanwhile, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) recently approved a $24.8 million credit line to improve roads in Guyana to lower transportation costs and travel time while increasing safety and accessibility to key residential and agricultural areas.

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