The Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion has an­nounced the tem­po­rary open­ing of the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route (PBR) to light mo­tor ve­hi­cles on Sat­ur­day to help ease traf­fic dur­ing the 24th Edi­tion of the Laven­tille Eman­ci­pa­tion Steel­band Street Pa­rade.

The min­istry said mo­torists dri­ving light mo­tor ve­hi­cles will be per­mit­ted to use both the east­bound and west­bound lanes of the PBR be­tween Port-of-Spain and Champ Fleurs from 5 p.m. to 11.59 p.m. on Au­gust 8.

The tem­po­rary traf­fic arrange­ment is in­tend­ed to as­sist with traf­fic man­age­ment while the an­nu­al pa­rade takes place along the East­ern Main Road be­tween Leon Street and McAl­lis­ter Street in Suc­cess Vil­lage, Laven­tille.