The Demerara Harbour Bridge and the Ministry of Public Works will soon be engaged in constructing a bypass lane to further ease traffic congestion at the bridge, Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill yesterday said during the launch of the country’s only automated toll payment system.
The minister said that the lane will eliminate the need for bridge commuters heading to Georgetown to halt at the ‘T’ intersection before proceeding north on the East Bank Public Road.
“Very soon we will be able to implement a continuous left turn when you are heading east across the bridge… So rather than when you exit the bridge, heading east you have to wait on the traffic light, there will be a continuous slip lane that you can keep turning left,” Edghill disclosed before stating that they have already negotiated and received permission from the church, which is close by to the bridge’s access road, to remove a section of the fence and the traffic control block.
