Workmen were hard at work laying the surface for the new slip lane.
Minister of Transport, Works and Water Resources, Ian Gooding-Edghill.
Come Tuesday, motorists will have an easier time making their way from the ABC Highway onto Rendezvous Hill.
This as the construction of a 266-metre-long slip lane, allowing persons coming from Graeme Hall or Sargeants Village to follow through onto Rendezvous Hill, has entered its final stages.
Saying the road markings were to be put in place tomorrow, new Minister of Transport, Works and Water Resources, Ian Gooding-Edghill, told the media during an on-site briefing that the $174,395 project will be completed ahead of next week’s start of the school year.
“The purpose of this slip lane is to reduce traffic congestion by allowing vehicles, which enter this lane from the ABC Highway or Sargeants Village, to travel freely down Rendezvous Hill. Motorists will no longer have to wait behind those vehicles which stop in order to turn right onto Fordes Road, thereby reducing gridlock at the Garfield Sobers Roundabout.
“An enhanced right turn onto Fordes Road and Clapham will also improve traffic flow. We are therefore asking motorists at that junction, whether they are coming from the Garfield Sobers Roundabout or from Rendezvous Hill, to be considerate and co-operative with one another to make turning onto Fordes Road as smooth and as easy as possible,” he stated.
The opening of the lane also means there will no longer be any turning restrictions placed on those vehicles turning right onto Fordes Road.
In addition, a four-foot-wide foot path has been created with access for disabled persons within the area.
Gooding-Edghill’s predecessor and MP for the area, Dr. William Duguid, who began the project, was on hand for the briefing and expressed happiness that it had come to fruition.
“This is not seen in isolation, but ties into the work we did on Rendezvous Hill where this was widened and steps put in. So this is part of a wider plan and while it has taken a little longer than we expected because of COVID and getting everyone back to work, but now I am very happy that the traffic situation will be getting some ease and I will be begging the minister for a diversion lane down by the playing field,” he said. (JMB)