Secondary East Bank road on the cards

Traffic congestion along the East Bank Demerara roadway (Stabroek News file photo Jan, 2012)

With plans to invite expressions of interest for the construction of a new bridge across the Demerara River and a parallel secondary roadway on the East Bank Demerara, government yesterday announced that $12.6 billion will go towards sustaining and improving roads and bridges across the country.

This amount tops lasts year’s $9.4 billion by some $3.2 billion and will be divided so that $11.2 billion