The National Works Agency (NWA) is announcing that work is set to resume on the Kings Street to Green Pond roadway in St. James on Tuesday July 24, 2012. The multi-million dollar project is being executed by China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), under the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP).
The project has been on hold since January 2012, to facilitate an audit that was commissioned into the JDIP.
State Minister in the Ministry of Transport Works and Housing, Honourable Richard Azan, today facilitated a meeting with the sub-contractor and other parties which led to the decision to have the project restarted tomorrow.
The project is being completed at a cost of approximately $147 million and involves the complete rehabilitation of 4.8 kilometers of roadway. Significant drainage improvement works are also being done, to include the construction of curbs and channels and the replacement of several culverts.
The Green Pond road is the primary access route for hundreds of residents from the community of Cornwall Courts, which is the largest housing development in Western Jamaica. The road has been the source of several demonstrations by taxi operators and parents of children who have complained of dust nuisance.
Minister Azan in apologizing for the delays in restarting the works says that the Ministry of Works intends to have all outstanding matters resolved within the next 10 weeks.
He says sub-contractor on the project YP Seaton and Associates has given a commitment to having the road completed.
