Geisha Kow­lessar

The ex­per­i­men­tal traf­fic plan for west Port-of-Spain kicked off from mid­night last night with few ma­jor prob­lems, ac­cord­ing toWorks Min­is­ter Em­manuel George.In a press con­fer­ence held at the min­istry's of­fice at Rich­mond Street, Port-of-Spain this morn­ing, George praised the ef­forts of the po­lice and traf­fic war­dens who were on the spot to help dri­vers. George said, how­ev­er, thatthere was con­ges­tion at the Roxy round­about an­dun­ex­pect­ed heavy traf­fic at Mu­cu­rapo Road."The traf­fic com­ing east con­flict­ed­with the traf­fic head­ing west at the round­about," George said.The min­is­ter said he was out on the road from 5 a.m.and saw very lit­tle traf­fic along the re­con­fig­ured routes. Around 8 a.m., how­ev­er,the flow of traf­fic in­creased, he said.He al­so ap­pealed to dri­vers to be aware of traf­fic­signs and fol­low in­struc­tions from the po­lice."This ex­per­i­men­tal scheme is some­thing that was moot­ed some months ago, and it was a work in progress be­fore it ac­tu­al­ly be­gan."A lot of work went in for the prepa­ra­tion of the scheme," George said.He said there was on­go­ing­con­sul­ta­tion with taxi dri­vers, res­i­dents and busi­ness­peo­ple be­fore the plan went in­to ef­fect.More stake­hold­er con­sul­ta­tions are ex­pect­ed to take place at the end of this week. The plan is be­ing run on a tri­al ba­sis for three months.