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.