MOTORISTS, RESIDENTS, BUSINESSES and schoolchildren will soon get relief from the dust, at-times slushy conditions and snarled traffic linked to an unfinished highway project in St Martin’s, St Philip.
Minister of Transport and Works Michael Lashley, who toured the area yesterday, gave the assurance that the project would be finished in two weeks’ time.
He said that to speed up the project Ministry of Transport and Works construction people would be working with the main contractor Rayside Construction Limited from today.
Lashley apologized to all the people adversely affected by the project in which he identified bad weather and the stop of construction during the Christmas period among the problems.
Today Rayside Construction Limited workers started paving the road, reducing the dust sent flying by passing vehicles.
During a media briefing on site, Lashley told reporters that this year hundreds of people should be finding work with highway projects.
He also said the Barbados Transport Board would soon be restructured to make it more efficient and better off financially.
He said too that Government would be tackling the issue of pirate buses which were cutting into the revenue of the board as well as that of private bus owners. (TY)
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