Several hours-long closures of the Demerara Harbour Bridge are scheduled as major rehabilitation of spans nine and ten is due to resume, according to General Manager of the Demerara Harbour Bridge Corporation Wayne Watson.
Responding to questions from the press at a news conference on Monday, Watson explained that repairs totalling $1.2 billion are being done in intervals.
According to the work schedule, 16 six-hour closures have been scheduled to execute corrective works. Watson said to date they had completed five of the lengthy closures. “It was scheduled to finish in December 2021, but because of consideration for users, we are now projecting somewhere between April. In order to replace span nine, the rehabilitation work of both span nine and 10 must be completed which will require some closure of the bridge. The total closure to do the rehabilitation is 16, six-hour closures, to date we have only done five,” he explained.
