According to the newly-promoted Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI), Geoffrey Vaughn the ongoing replacement of the Liliendaal Bridge will not affect the soon-to-start work on the sinkhole at the Kitty seawall.
At present, traffic is closed off from the Liliendaal Bridge on the East Coast Railway Embankment for four months, and while traffic around Vlissengen Road, Kitty, will be closed off when work commences on the sinkhole, Vaughn stated that the two will not affect each other.
“They should not affect each other. When the work starts and Vlissengen Road is closed off, the other half will be opened, and when the other half towards the sea wall is closed off, then Vlissengen Road will be opened, and so none of the two will be done at the same time,” Vaughn explained to Stabroek News on Tuesday.
While the two projects will cause some small congestion because of redirected traffic, Vaughn said, “If you want development sometimes you must have some amount of hindrance. It doesn’t mean we want you to be hindered, but we have to do things so that it will not disturb your daily life.”
