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Apr 02, 2013 News
Several critical transportation projects on the coastland, including repairs to the Soesdyke/Linden Highway and the Essequibo public road are scheduled for this year.
Under the Ministry of Public Works ‘Road Improvement and Rehabilitation Programme’, this year some $735M has been allocated. The programme is part of a $5.9B project financed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Government and which started in 2009.
Already almost $2.7B has been spent.
The programme includes the East and West Canje roads, the access road from Bounty Farms to the Terminal Building at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport and the rehabilitation of the East Bank Berbice Road.
Also this year, $1.1B has been set aside under the Ministry’s ‘Highway Improvement East Coast Demerara’, which includes studies and designs for the four-lane highway from Better Hope to Golden Grove and preparatory widening works from Better Hope to Annandale.
This project is an almost $4B one being financed by Central Government and Kuwait –Government is plugging the majority of $3.7B. Before 2013, some $1.1B was spent on the works.
A section of the project was delayed after the contractor reportedly failed to deliver.
Meanwhile, another IDB-funded project to the tune of $14.9B started last year and dubbed ‘Road Network and Expansion Project, is set to take shape this year. Government is contributing $1.35B. This year, $300M has been allocated.
This programme will include the design, upgrading and construction of selected main roads throughout the country and the upgrade of Sheriff Street from the East Coast Demerara Public Road junction to the junction of the East Bank Public Road at Houston.
This has been in the making for a number of years now with Sheriff Street/Mandela Avenue providing a critical link between East Coast of Demerara and East Bank of Demerara.
On the West Demerara area, major rehabilitation works are expected to start on the road from Vreed-en-Hoop to Hydronie, East Bank Essequibo. Some $926M has been set aside this year for this. The entire project is budgeted to cost $9.6B and set for completion in December 2017.
There has been talk about making the road from Vreed-en-Hoop to Parika, into a four-lane highway.
Meanwhile, under the ‘Rehabilitation of Public and Main Access Roads’, the Ministry is set to repair a number of critical roadways. These include Canal Numbers One and Two Polder access roads and Hubu main access road, East Bank Essequibo; Soesdyke/Linden highway and the Essequibo Coast public road.
The Canal Number One road is the main access to the La Parfaite Harmonie housing scheme, one of the largest in the country, but it has deteriorated badly in recent years. It is a similar situation at Canal Number Two which, too, leads to a farming community and Belle West, a new housing scheme.
The Soesdyke/Linden highway, one of the best built roads in Guyana, has been deteriorating too. It is a critical access road leading to the Mining Town of Linden, a gateway to the hinterlands.
Pic filed as canal road
Canals Polder access roads and the Soesdyke/Linden Highway are scheduled for critical repairs this year.
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