Corentyne Highway rehabilitation slated for month end completion

THE three contractors engaged in rehabilitative works on the Corentyne Highway in Berbice have completed the major aspects of their respective contracts and are now concentrating on the minor ones.

They are currently placing road markings, reflectors, pedestrian crossings, edge lines and vertical signs, among other things, according to Highway Engineer, Mr. Ron Rahaman.

He said the entire project, with US$30M funding from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), should be finished for handing over this month end.

It was sub-divided into Lot One ( between New Amsterdam Ferry Stelling and Number 36 and then onto Moleson Creek.

The first, spawning approximately 41.1 kilometres (km) was contracted to Dipcon Engineering, while K. Nauth Consortium partnered B.K. International for the second, which comprised sub-sections A and B.

B.K., which recently invested in several pieces heavy-duty road building machinery, undertook sub-section A, stretching 21.5 km, from Number 36 to Number 63 and sub-section B was done by Nauth, a distance of 23.8 km, from Number 65 to Moleson Creek.

Rahaman said, with the construction of the Berbice River Bridge, Dipcon had to widen the highway in the vicinity Palmyra, which previously accommodated two-lane traffic, to cope with four-lane flow and vehicles turning.

Repairs also had to be done to hand rails, and joints are being corrected on the Canje Bridge.

He said corrective works on the approaches to the Black Water Bridge, that was being undermined, are being undertaken, as well.

Rahaman said travel along the 87 km thoroughfare is now much more comfortable.

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