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Sunday, July 27, 2025

Traffic changes take effect at Curepe

by

Peter Christopher
2224 days ago
20190624
Motorists use of the access ramps at the Curepe Interchange on Monday night.

Motorists use of the access ramps at the Curepe Interchange on Monday night.

Peter Christopher

Af­ter a false start, the traf­fic changes put in place to fa­cil­i­tate the con­struc­tion of the Curepe In­ter­change of­fi­cial­ly came in­to ef­fect short­ly af­ter 7 pm on Mon­day.

The Min­istry of Works and Trans­port had put out a re­lease last week an­nounc­ing the changes, which are set to be in ef­fect for the next six months, would come in­to ef­fect on Mon­day.

How­ev­er, many mo­torists and maxi taxi dri­vers along the Churchill Roo­sevelt High­way and the South­ern Main Road were none the wis­er on Mon­day morn­ing as traf­fic flowed as usu­al along the routes.

Some dri­vers even ad­mit­ted that they were un­aware of the pro­posed changes.

NID­CO of­fi­cials lat­er said the changes would come in­to ef­fect at around 5 pm, but when Guardian Me­dia ar­rived, work was still be­ing done on the ramps to ac­com­mo­date traf­fic fol­low­ing the changes.

Short­ly af­ter 7 pm, po­lice of­fi­cers di­vert­ed traf­fic to the re­spec­tive ramps, sig­nal­ing the changes were of­fi­cial­ly in ef­fect.

So­lar pow­ered traf­fic lights were al­so in­stalled along the ramps and the Churchill Roo­sevelt High­way to guide mo­torists ac­cord­ing­ly.

The Curepe In­ter­change project of­fi­cial­ly start­ed in Feb­ru­ary, and was es­ti­mat­ed to be com­plet­ed in No­vem­ber.

The project is ex­pect­ed to cost an es­ti­mat­ed $221 mil­lion.


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