Transport and Works Minister, Mike Henry is slated to officially open the Milk River Bridge in Clarendon on Thursday February 5. The bridge is one of 11 being replaced under government’s multi-million dollar R. A. Murray Bridge Programme and is the first to be completed.
The National Works Agency managed the replacement of the single lane Truss Bridge which stood at the same location of the new bridge for over 70 years.
In the meantime, Minister Henry recently signed contracts valued at 207 million dollars to effect repairs to several areas. The list includes a contract to A1 Construction Company Limited in the sum of $18.8 million, for the construction of a box culvert along Milford Road in Ocho Rios, St. Ann.
A contract in the amount $29.7 million has also been awarded to Solid Engineering Limited for the construction of a box culvert at Exchange in St. Ann.
Also, there is a contract to be signed off on in respect of road rehabilitation work on the Orange Park Road in St. Ann in the amount of $29.7 million. The work is to be done by Alcar Construction & Haulage Limited.
In Clarendon, a contract valued at $23.9 million is being signed for the construction of random rubbel wall in the Kupius - Colonel’s Ridge area, with the contractor being Gabion & Structures Limited.
In St Andrew, work is to be done on a reinforced concrete wall and the gully in the New Haven/Shakespeare Avenue/Bunyan Crescent Gully area. The contractor is N.F. Barnes Construction & Equipment Company Limited, with the contract sum being $77.6 million.
Likewise, the Perkins Boulevard-Washington Boulevard area is to have the construction of a reinforced concrete gully invert (a retaining wall) done by Asphaltic Concrete Enterprise Limited, at a cost of $15.1 million.
Over on Grants Pen Road, a reinforced box culvert is to be done by Surrey Paving and Aggregate Limited in the sum of $12.4 million. This is to free up vehicular traffic which has been badly affected by damage to the gully in the area, with the rains in October last year further compounding the situation and threatening to cut off the roadway.
