As hun­dreds of dri­vers faced an ear­ly morn­ing grid­lock dri­ving in­to Port-of-Spain, af­ter a woman was fa­tal­ly struck cross­ing the high­way in El So­cor­ro on Mon­day morn­ing, the Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion said it is tem­porar­i­ly open­ing of the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route (PBR) to light mo­tor ve­hi­cles to­day from Ma­coya to Port of Spain in the west­bound di­rec­tion on­ly.

The min­istry stat­ed that the route will be opened from 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

The min­istry said the tem­po­rary mea­sure ap­plies on­ly to light mo­tor ve­hi­cles trav­el­ling west­bound along the PBR be­tween Ma­coya and Port of Spain.

Mo­torists were ad­vised to obey traf­fic reg­u­la­tions and fol­low in­struc­tions from law en­force­ment of­fi­cers and traf­fic per­son­nel dur­ing the pe­ri­od of the open­ing.

The min­istry al­so urged dri­vers to ex­er­cise cau­tion while us­ing the route.

The PBR is usu­al­ly re­served for au­tho­rised ve­hi­cles, in­clud­ing pub­lic trans­port ve­hi­cles and emer­gency ser­vices, dur­ing spec­i­fied hours. Tem­po­rary open­ings are some­times im­ple­ment­ed to re­duce traf­fic con­ges­tion along the East-West Cor­ri­dor.

The min­istry did not state the rea­son for Mon­day’s tem­po­rary open­ing but thanked mem­bers of the pub­lic for their co­op­er­a­tion and un­der­stand­ing.

Dri­vers trav­el­ling along the cor­ri­dor were ad­vised to plan their jour­neys ac­cord­ing­ly and com­ply with di­rec­tions from of­fi­cers sta­tioned along the route.

The min­istry said traf­fic per­son­nel and law en­force­ment of­fi­cers will mon­i­tor the flow of ve­hi­cles dur­ing the ex­er­cise.

The tem­po­rary arrange­ment ends at 11:00 a.m., af­ter which nor­mal re­stric­tions gov­ern­ing the use of the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route will re­sume.