Region Ten is set to benefit from nearly $350 million in infrastructural works this year which includes the upgrading of the Linden/Soesdyke Highway, according to Public Works Minister Juan Edghill.
The minister also disclosed that in the final quarter of this year, the contract for the construction of the first 125 kilometres of the Linden to Lethem road will be signed.
These disclosures were made at the commissioning of the newly rehabilitated Washer Pond Road in Linden yesterday. According to Edghill, the Public Works Ministry has awarded a $150 million contract for the upgrade of the Linden/Soesdyke Highway. It is the Ministry’s hope, he said, that with the highway being upgraded, people will be able to travel more safely and key issues like flooding will be addressed. He added that rehabilitation works are set to commence in various areas across Linden under the Ministry’s Miscellaneous and Urban Roads programme.