A new north­bound lane of the Solomon Ho­choy High­way be­tween Ch­agua­nas and Chase Vil­lage should be opened by Wednes­day, says Min­is­ter of Works and Trans­port Ro­han Sinanan.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Sinanan said the south­bound sec­tion has al­ready been opened. The project start­ed in Jan­u­ary 2024 and took just over a year to com­plete. Sinanan stat­ed that safe­ty con­cerns, in­clud­ing the paint­ing of the white lines on the north­bound sec­tion, must be ad­dressed be­fore the sec­tion is opened.

He said, “The work on the high­way, the paving, has been com­plet­ed; what they are do­ing now is ad­dress­ing the safe­ty is­sues.”