NWA Communication Manager Stephen Shaw
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NWA Communication Manager Stephen Shaw
The National Works Agency (NWA) has said rehabilitation work is expected to start in another week on the Scotts Pass to Porus main road which is on the border of Clarendon and Manchester.
Protesting taxi operators blocked a section of the road Monday morning.
Vehicular movement was restricted for several hours as the taxi operators used their vehicles to block the usually busy thoroughfare, resulting in long lines of traffic.
It was cleared by the police.
One of the taxi operators lamented that his colleagues were forced to act as no effort has been made to fix the pot hole riddled road which was damaged during heavy rains late last year.
"We have been working with this bad road condition over eight months. Last week, I miss at least seven head-ons [collisions]. There is a corner there that you have to swing over 'cause the hole is very deep. So I don't have any regrets in taking part in this demonstration. The situation is too bad in Jamaica, we have to do things like this to get results," he bemoaned.
NWA Communication Manager Stephen Shaw said the rehabilitation of the Scotts Pass to Porus main road is part of a project to fix the stretch of road from Osbourne Store in Clarendon into Manchester.
He said the agency is in the process of purchasing asphaltic concrete but is "resolving some issues with the supplier."
However, he is "hopeful that in very, very short order, [the NWA] will be in a position to start the prep work for the paving over of those areas."
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