Come Mon­day, the new traf­fic flow of the South­ern Main Road in the vicin­i­ty of the Curepe In­ter­sec­tion will be in ef­fect.

But, there seemed to be a lot of work to be done this week­end.

A vis­it to the site right yes­ter­day showed that the de­cel­er­a­tion or fil­ter lanes are yet to be paved, Ramp G which is lo­cat­ed to the south­ern side of the South­ern Main Road (near to where Kay Don­na Dri­ve-In used to be) is still to be com­plet­ed and the new traf­fic lights are not in place.

The new traf­fic sig­nals are to re­place the ex­ist­ing ones at the in­ter­sec­tion and will be placed 100 me­tres or so near to the en­trance to ramps G and D (lo­cat­ed on the north­ern side of the South­ern Main Road).

What this es­sen­tial­ly means is that the new traf­fic plan which will come in­to ef­fect on June 24, will not re­move the need for any traf­fic lights but rather the sig­nals will be placed at a dif­fer­ent lo­ca­tion and the ramps will be used to ac­cess both sides of the South­ern Main Road.

Min­is­ter of Works and Trans­port Ro­han Sinanan said every­thing is go­ing ac­cord­ing to sched­ule and in­sist­ed that the en­tire project will be com­plet­ed by the end of the year.

“If you pass there you’ll see the roads are about 75 to 80 per­cent com­plet­ed, the steel struc­ture is com­ing in from Chi­na, so while we put in all the an­cil­lary work, one day you’ll pass there and see all the steel on the ground and with­in a week you’ll see the steel up. What you’re see­ing there is the foun­da­tion and then the bridge will be in­stalled in a short space of time.”

The Min­is­ter said Mon­day’s traf­fic changes are nec­es­sary be­cause it is an ac­tive project.

He said once an area is com­plet­ed the traf­fic must be shift­ed so that there is a free flow.