WATCH: New detour road opens off Montego Bay bypass

ST JAMES, Jamaica — Motorists traversing the Dr Horace Chang Boulevard in Montego Bay, to get into Norwood, came upon a new development Friday morning with the opening of a new detour road.

The detour road, proposed as part of the project to implement the new bypass, takes motorists out Ironshore and brings them to the Providence intersection onto Ironshore Drive, and thereafter onto the Dr Horace Chang Boulevard and the reverse.

The change became effective about 11:00am Friday with teams from the contractor, China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), putting up barriers to that effect. Team members were also placed at points to guide motorists to the new travel path while the barriers were put in place.