India has approved financing for the four-lane Ogle to Eccles road nearly a year ahead of schedule.
“Today we received the news that all of the approval has been given in India. We are moving to the procurement stage. This is a project that was delayed for almost seven years,” President Irfaan Ali said yesterday during his inaugural address to the 12th Parliament.
The President stressed that his government had in just six months been able to bring forward the approval of the road by almost a year.
The Ogle to Diamond bypass road was first piloted by the Donald Ramotar government as a corridor for communities on the East Bank, including Perseverance, Providence, Eccles, Peter’s Hall and Aubrey Barker Road. It will also provide a bypass away from the city reducing traffic congestion on the East Bank Highway.
