Shas­tri Boodan

Ch­agua­nas com­muters should see an ease in their dai­ly traf­fic woes be­fore the end of the year as a re­sult of the con­struc­tion of a new con­nec­tor road and bridge on state lands in Mon­trose, ac­cord­ing to Gopaul Bood­han, deputy may­or of Ch­agua­nas.

Bood­han was speak­ing with the me­dia yes­ter­day, dur­ing a tour of the site on which the con­nec­tor road and bridge are be­ing built. He said the Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion had been clam­our­ing for five years to have the bridge built and al­ter­nate routes opened to ease traf­fic con­ges­tion in the re­gion.

He said when the in­fra­struc­ture is com­plet­ed by year-end, it would al­low ve­hi­cles trav­el­ling from Mon­trose to by­pass the Ch­agua­nas and Mon­trose Main Roads and use an al­ter­nate route through Ed­in­burgh 500. The new route takes com­muters straight to the area be­low the Ch­agua­nas Fly­over or on­to the Solomon Ho­choy High­way.?Bood­han said this should al­low thou­sands of com­muters to dri­ve in­to and out of the bor­ough in less than half the time. Bood­han said oth­er al­ter­nate routes and one-way streets would be opened in the com­ing months to ease the con­ges­tion in the busy cen­tral bor­ough.

He said now was the right time for the Gov­ern­ment to start a traf­fic war­den pro­gramme in Ch­agua­nas and that the war­dens should play a piv­otal role in mon­i­tor­ing mo­torists and en­sur­ing that the laws were ob­served. The war­dens would al­so con­trol park­ing zones and one-way sys­tems in the bor­ough as well as as­sist­ing the po­lice in keep­ing a look­out for stolen ve­hi­cles, said Bood­han. The deputy may­or praised Jack Warn­er, Min­is­ter of Works and Ch­agua­nas West MP, for his in­put in­to the project.