Surveying starts for Sheriff/Mandela Avenue road project

An overhead view of Sheriff Street (DPI photo)

The Sheriff Street/Mandela Avenue area is being surveyed in preparation for huge expansion works to be conducted by Chinese company, Sinohydro Corporation Limited.

Work Services Group, Coordinator, Ministry of Public Infrastructure, Geoffrey Vaughn told the Department of Public Information (DPI)  that these measures will set the pace for the infrastructural works which are expected to begin before the end of the first quarter this year.

“Sinohydro is mobilising, as we speak. Surveying works are being done and this is basically to stake out the area in terms of width and centre lines etc. So we’re doing the preliminaries before we go into the actual works,” Vaughn told DPI.

The contract for the Sheriff/Mandela Avenue road project was