Overseers optimistic about new deadlines for East Bank, East Coast expansions

Workers from the Works Ministry demolished BM Soat’s infrastructure, which encroached on state lands, and more importantly, the area where the extended road will pass.

The overseers of both the delayed East Bank and East Coast four-lane expansion projects are optimistic that whatever works that are incomplete will be finished by the stipulated deadlines.

The Works Ministry’s Manager of Roads and Bridges Department Ron Rahaman has told Stabroek News that the installation of two additional lanes at various points of the East Bank highway will be completed in the third quarter of this year, while General Manager of the Works Services Group (WSG) Geoffrey Vaughn says he believes the work on the East Coast expansion will be completed by June.

Against the backdrop of Vaughn’s and Rahaman’s optimism though, is the glaring fact that both