The National Works Agency will over the next eight weeks, be undertaking a major road patching programme, valued at 50 million dollars, on a number of roads in the corporate area.
Manager of Communication and Customer Services at the NWA, Stephen Shaw, says one hundred and sixty-three (163) roads in and around Kingston and St. Andrew will be patched, by the end of June under this programme.
Mr. Shaw explains that the programme of work is especially geared toward the patching of collector and local roads that have become badly rutted in recent times. Collector roads are those that are used by motorists to enter the main arterial roads, while local roads are community roads that are used to access the collector roads.
According to Mr. Shaw, among the corridors to be targeted include August Town Road; Gordon Town Road; Old Stony Hill Road; and Jacks Hill Road in St. Andrew. Other roads slated for patching are Barbican Road; Wellington Drive; Arnold Road; Sunrise Crescent; Perkins Boulevard; Patrick Drive; Omara Road; East Avenue; East Road; Mannings Hill Road; Ruthven Road; Whitehall Avenue; Balmoral Avenue; Ripon Road; Roehampton Drive; Langston Road; Border Avenue; Daytona Drive and Graham Heights.
Several roads in downtown Kingston are also to be patched. These include East Queen Street; West Queen Street; Duke Street; Charles Street, Harbour Street; Barry Street; Ocean Boulevard; Orange Street; King Street; Church Street, Victoria Avenue; Sutton Street; Hanover Street and Beckford Street.
Mr. Shaw says the Agency intends, with this phase of patching, to resolve a number of outstanding complaints regarding potholes, captured by the NWA’s Customers Complaints System.
