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$1.3b to upgrade roads—Roopnarine

SHASTRI BOODAN
Published: 
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Stacy Roopnarine, left, Minister in the Ministry of Works and Infrastructure, listens to the residents of Ragoonanan Trace, SS Erin Road, Penal, which is being rehabilitated by Pure. Photo: courtesy Stacy Roopnarine

Government will spend $1.3 billion to upgrade roads under the Programme for the Upgrade of Road Efficiency (Pure) in the new fiscal year. This was revealed by Stacy Roopnarine, the Minister in the Ministry of Works and Infrastructure. Speaking with the Sunday Guardian she said from May 2010 to present Pure undertook 926 projects at an estimated cost of $2.3 billion, utilising 223 contractors and paving over 500km of roads across the country.

 

She said in the new financial year the Pure programme will focus on road rehabilitation. Some of the works to be done include:
• Widening of the Caroni Savannah Road from Uriah Butler Highway to Caroni Bridge on the Southern Main Road (SMR), and from the SMR, Caroni Bridge to Washington Junction
• Walkovers would be built in the vicinity of Movie Towne and Wrightson Road at a cost of $10 million and $11 million respectively
• Widening of Saddle Road
• Barrackpore Access M2 Ring Road
• M1 Tasker Road, St Madeline to Princes Town
• La Paille Access, Cipero Road to Manahambre Road

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