Traffic lights for a US$2.1M ($420M) project have been shipped.

Approximately 50 traffic lights should be installed by mid-March, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported yesterday. The structures are likely to appear at the junctions of Camp and Lamaha streets, Vlissengen Road and Homestretch Avenue, Church and Main streets and the East Coast Highway among other locations.

The contract for the development was signed last November between the Minister of Public Works and Communication and Indian firm CMS Traffic Systems Limited. The Governments of Guyana and India sealed the agreement in the presence of President Bharrat Jagdeo and India’s Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat who was on a three-day visit to Guyana.

Minister of Public Works Robeson Benn told GINA it is expected that most of the traffic lights will be installed and functioning by mid-March. Surveys are currently ongoing at various junctions where the traffic lights will be installed while engineering designs for installing the lights are being finalized.

Over the last few years most of the traffic lights in the city became non-functional and in light of its modernization plan and upcoming events to be hosted in Guyana, government is making the necessary arrangements to get the traffic lights functioning on schedule.