– contractor
WORK on the reconstruction of the bridge at Sussex and Saffon Streets in Georgetown continues to progress, despite weeks of delay due to periods of incessant rainfall and other minor setbacks. Mr. Roy Bassoo, of R. Bassoo and Sons Contracting Company, said workmen are laboring, assiduously, to ensure that the structure is complete by the stipulated time.
“The original deadline is the end of May but were trying to get the job done by the end of April,” he said.
Bassoo reminded that there was a hold-up a few weeks ago, through the removal of some pipelines which were hampering the processs.
He said, in addition to making up for the weeks of delays, changes have been made to the original designs and the overpass will now be wider and include pedestrian walkways.
Bassoo said concrete revetments and sheet piles are, currently, being installed after which approach flabs will be cast.
But the schedule will not be affected by the additions, he assured, of the contract to link the bridge to four-lane highway leading out of the city. It would begin from Broad Street, Charlestown and continue South to meet the East Bank Demerara corridor, under the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) funded Bridges II project.
The undertaking is to facilitate the significant increase in vehicular traffic along the route.