The Works Ministry plans to go ahead with the proposed Northern Valley Link Road. Minister of Works and Infrastructure Jack Warner said this yesterday at the opening ceremony of a newly-paved street, Back Street, in Maraval. The link road, which comprises a series of tunnels and overpasses, will connect Diego Martin to Port-of-Spain through Maraval.
As residents gathered in the rain to ask Warner to fix other roads and to help bring sporting facilities to their community, Warner revealed that he had been given an update hours earlier on the proposed link road, which would pass through Maraval.
He said he had received a report yesterday, on a feasibility study of the North Link Road. The study, which Warner said should be completed by May, was commissioned by his ministry and is being done by a French company called Aegis International, under the National Infrastructure Development Company (NIDCO).
"The report shows that the work is far ahead and that it can be done, and the biggest problem we will face is acquisition," he said. Warner said the road would definitely become a reality. "The same way you have a highway from Golconda to Point Fortin, you will have one from Diego Martin to Maraval to Port-of-Spain," he said.
In a T&T Guardian interview last month, Warner said construction of the road should begin by 2013 and be completed by 2015.