Georgetown: The Guyana government is looking at two locations for the construction of a new reinforced concrete Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB), either from Versailles, West Bank Demerara (WBD) to Houston, East Bank Demerara or from Patentia, West Bank Demerara to New Hope, East Bank Demerara. This will cost US$300M.
This is according to DHB’s General Manager Rawlston Adams.
The requirements include a reinforced concrete bridge with at least four lanes; pedestrian walkways; navigational channel of 100 metres; air draft of 50 metres; and maximum gradient of five percent.
The General Manager related that the bridge will take a while to complete and its start cannot be delayed. He assured that the construction of the new bridge is to satisfy the growing volume of traffic. Between January 2009 and December 2012 there are 1,820 new trips per month.
Daily about 13,000 passengers including approximately 500 schoolchildren cross the Demerara River via speedboats from Vreed-en-Hoop to Georgetown. It is expected that the new bridge will take about 50 percent of those passengers.
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