Traffic may be re-routed through villages during East Bank road extension

Traffic could be diverted through several East Bank Demerara (EBD) villages next year when works on the four-lane highway between Providence and Grove commence and residents are already worried about the potential disruption of essential services due to the project.

During a stakeholder workshop on the EBD Public Road four-lane extension project yesterday at Duke Lodge, Transport Planning Officer within the works ministry Rabindranauth Chandarpaul told a gathering that included residents that works on the Inter-American Development Bank funded project are expected to commence during the first quarter of 2011. He added that among the issues which are being ironed out by the agency as well as the project consultants is traffic flow fluctuations. In this regard, he explained that diversion of traffic through several villages along the roadway