Chapel Street reverts to two-way system
Chapel Street in Speightstown, St Peter, will revert to a two-way system.
This about turn from the Ministry of Transport and Works (MTW) comes exactly one week after the new Speightstown Traffic Management Plan was put in place.
Minister Santia Bradshaw made the announcement on Thursday following a tour of the northern city with parliamentary representative and Minister of Labour Colin Jordan, other MTW officials (traffic management and drainage), business and property owners, the Barbados Tourism Inc. and the National Conservation Commission.
Bradshaw said at the time the changes were announced, the intention was always to review them because “we never expected that anything we put in place, that that is going to be the only way it can be done”.
The decision was taken after also speaking with residents who indicated the challenges associated with the change in Chapel Street.
“Many of them have been affected in terms of the traffic flow. A number of persons have obviously not been able to get to their businesses. So there have been some challenges by making that particular decision, and as a consequence, on the review with the traffic management division, we have agreed that we would actually reverse that change and we will have the Chapel Street area return to a two-way system,” Bradshaw said.
By weekend, she added, the public relations machinery should be in place to inform members of the public.
The other one-way measures in Speightstown seem to be working. (SAT)