Georgetown: Close to $10B is being invested into infrastructural improvements on the East Bank of Demerara, this is expected to alleviate the large volume of traffic along that corridor.
Housing and Water Minister, Irfaan Ali made this disclosure while he pointed to the benefits of the expansion underway with the development of additional housing schemes in that area.
Congruent to the housing development, the Ministry has also undertaken to construct a series of “connecting” roads linking the schemes; among these are the access roads in Farm and Herstelling, where $2B has already been invested.
During a tour of the area last week, Ali and his team of Engineers inspected the works done on these feeder roads and reiterated the benefits of the additional network of roads linking the communities along the corridor.
“This is the latest development of the East Bank Development Infrastructure Project, this one of six 25ft roads that will stretch all the way from Diamond to various points; we will have six of those. This one in an 18ft road goes all the way down to the high voltage dam where the main collector’s road will be,” Ali explained as he inspected the works completed at Farm.
Meanwhile, Project Manager of the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA), Fazal Wahab, who accompanied the Minister and his team, noted that the goal of the construction of the alternative roadways to link Ogle to Providence and then as time and revenue permit, from Ogle to further down the East Bank.
He explained, “This development is massive, it is over 4,000 acres of land and at the end of it, we will see approximately 10 east to west connecting roads. So far we have identified six connecting roads going all the way initially from Diamond-Herstelling area and then linking there to go on to Eccles. That would significantly take the burden off the existing East Bank road congestion, not only to serve that purpose, but will also integrate the community from Diamond all the way to Eccles.”
