Kali­fa Clyne

Port-of-Spain may­or Louis Lee Sing said a park-and-ride sys­tem will be in­tro­duced to the city on Ju­ly 11. In a tele­phone in­ter­view yes­ter­day, Lee Sing said while park­ing re­stric­tions will be en­forced in the city from April 2, the park-and-ride sys­tem was a part of the Traf­fic Con­trol (Ex­per­i­men­tal Scheme) for the Wood­brook area to be im­ple­ment­ed lat­er in the year.

The park-and-ride sys­tem will re­duce the num­ber of ve­hi­cles by hav­ing dri­vers park at spe­cif­ic points from where they will be shut­tled in­to the city. Lee Sing said the lo­ca­tions for pub­lic park­ing had not been de­cid­ed yet, and added that Works Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er was han­dling that as­pect.

Last year, Lee Sing named the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah as one of two lo­ca­tions cho­sen.

The oth­er was the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um. Un­der the new traf­fic scheme, Ari­api­ta Av­enue and Tra­garete Road will be made one-way. Speak­ing on the traf­fic mea­sures, Lee Sing said the reg­u­la­tions were a col­lab­o­ra­tive ef­fort be­tween the Min­istry of Works, the City Cor­po­ra­tion and the se­nior su­per­in­ten­dent at the po­lice Traf­fic Branch.

Lee Sing said con­sul­ta­tion on the project was on­go­ing, and changes were still be­ing dis­cussed. Lee Sing said res­i­dents had al­ready been con­sult­ed, through the Wood­brook Res­i­dents As­so­ci­a­tion. "There was a town meet­ing to present the plans to Wood­brook res­i­dents, and the taxi dri­vers' as­so­ci­a­tion was al­so con­sult­ed."