President of the St James Community Improvement Committee Earl Crosby said he was pleased with the new traffic plan which eased the traffic problem during the first day back to school yesterday.
The new plan went into effect last month with the hope it will bring about more traffic mobility and less congestion.
Interviewed yesterday, Crosby said the back streets running north and south were made one-way to ease congestion.
He added: "I am happy with the new plan and residents indicated the back streets have eased up the tension with the one-way and we don't have conflicts anymore."
Crosby said there were no traffic jam in St James, even with a primary school on the Western Main Road.
He added: "Traffic stopped on the inner lane and was still able to flow. It was working this morning and even with the re-opening of schools I think it did make a major different. The second lane was for taxis pulling over and in the other lane traffic flowed."?
He said during the Christmas season traffic was busy in St James but had since slowed down.
However, Crosby said some drivers were taking advantage of the lack of traffic wardens during the afternoon.
"I realise there are people still parking on the road. It is a sort of disrespect in the afternoon when there are no wardens around. So far nobody has been given a ticket," he said.
When a news team from the T&T Guardian visited St James yesterday morning the traffic jam began at Lucknow Street and the Western Main Road. Vehicles were parked on either side of the road from Cawnpore to Lazare Streets.
St Peter Rambert, a St James resident, said the new traffic plan was working to aid the problem.
"I love it so far and from when it started. Cars and everything pass free once they go by the rules and there is no headache," he said.
Vishnua Mungal, a butcher, said he believed the traffic was heavy yesterday morning.
"I work in the area and it was heavy up and down," he said.
Chanka Nedd, a clerk at a clothing store on Western Main Road, said there was a reasonable traffic flow.
"We come early in the morning and it didn't have no traffic last week. People wasn't working so the road was clear. By this evening it should have real traffic," she said.
