Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan wel­comed the re­lief the high­way ex­pan­sion in Ch­agua­nas has brought to com­muters. Speak­ing with the me­dia on Tues­day dur­ing a site vis­it, Sinanan as­sured that ad­di­tion­al up­grades will fur­ther ease traf­fic con­ges­tion.

The next phase will ex­tend from Chase Vil­lage to Freeport, aim­ing to com­plete three lanes to San Fer­nan­do. Sinanan al­so an­nounced that all pedes­tri­an walkovers across Trinidad and To­ba­go will be up­grad­ed with new light­ing for safe­ty. The next set of traf­fic al­le­vi­a­tion mea­sures is sched­uled for this year.

PURE (Pro­gramme for the Up­grade of Road Ef­fi­cien­cy) Di­rec­tor Hay­den Phillip out­lined the five-phase plan, not­ing that the first phase at Soogrim Trace has al­ready im­proved traf­fic flow. The next ma­jor step in­volves con­struct­ing a round­about at Mulchan Sieuchan Road to redi­rect ve­hi­cles off the over­pass. The gov­ern­ment is in the process of ac­quir­ing the nec­es­sary land for this de­vel­op­ment.