Traffic is moving at a snail’s pace along the East Coast corridor, as contractors work towards erecting an Arch at Cummings Lodge on the Rupert Craig Highway.
Roads between Liliendaal and Industry on the Rupert Craig Highway have been closed off to accommodate the assembling of the Arch at Cummings Lodge on the East Coast of Demerara. Traffic police have been seen diverting traffic, from the Highway onto the Railway embankment. Those points of diversion have been, from Liliendaal/Turkeyen to the embankment through the University of Guyana Road and Ogle/Industry being diverted onto the embankment through cross streets. Drivers were seen manoeuvring through roads in these villages just to escape from the heavy build-up on the Embankment, which goes as far back as Plaisance. There is also a heavy build- up of traffic aback of Sophia, the Road which runs East to West, behind the University of Guyana. There were no traffic officers at this point.
The traffic chaos has been compounded by the fact that a major bridge is being repaired at Liliendaal on the embankment road and as a result there is no free flow of traffic. Questions have been raised about why the arch work had to be done today.