Par­tial ac­cess to Wright­son Road due to con­struc­tion work by NGC is ex­pect­ed to end this morn­ing.

Yes­ter­day, the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed (NGC) ad­vised that it will ex­tend con­struc­tion works on its project to di­vert a seg­ment of its ex­ist­ing 16-inch low-pres­sure pipeline lo­cat­ed on Wright­son Road, Port-of-Spain.

NGC said the 16-inch pipeline project in­volves up­grad­ing ser­vices of low-pres­sure cus­tomers by switch­ing to a high­er-pres­sure pipeline op­er­at­ing sys­tem.

It said yes­ter­day the works con­tin­ued on Mon­day, Au­gust 1 from 8 am to Tues­day Au­gust 2 un­til 4 am, which meant com­muters will have par­tial ac­cess to Wright­son Road.

NGC in its state­ment said a com­pre­hen­sive traf­fic man­age­ment plan had been de­vel­oped and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) will be on hand to as­sist with traf­fic man­age­ment through­out the project with the fol­low­ing con­sid­er­a­tions:

• Dur­ing works on the west­ern car­riage­way of Wright­son Road, po­lice will redi­rect all in­com­ing traf­fic to the east­ern car­riage­way

• Dur­ing works on the east­ern car­riage­way of Wright­son Road, po­lice will redi­rect all in­com­ing traf­fic to the west­ern car­riage­way

• Traf­fic cones will be utilised to clear­ly sep­a­rate the lanes on the car­riage­ways

• There will be ad­vance no­tice/signs for com­muters along Wright­son Road

NGC al­so sought to as­sure the pub­lic that all work will be con­duct­ed with safe­ty as its high­est pri­or­i­ty and every ef­fort will be made to min­imise in­con­ve­nience to the pub­lic.