Intersection work will affect traffic lights

The Lakes Pen Road/Municipal Boulevard intersection in Portmore, St Catherine, will remain without traffic signals for at least the next two weeks.

As such, the National Works Agency’s (NWA) Communication and Customer Services Manager Stephen Shaw explains that the traffic lights had to be decommissioned to facilitate the widening of the roadway at the

intersection. The works involve the creation of a slip lane from Lakes Pen Road on to Municipal Boulevard, and an exclusive right-turning lane from Municipal Boulevard on to Lakes Pen Road.

The NWA is also reminding motorists that when traffic signals are out of operation, they are to treat the intersection as a fourway stop. Motorists are urged to approach the intersection with caution and exercise the requisite patience and civility when attempting to cross the junction.

The NWA is also informing motorists in Santa Cruz that the traffic signals at the intersection of Main Street and Coke Drive in the town centre should be back in operation by the weekend.

The lights’ signal equipment, which was damaged due to an electrical surge, has been taken out for repairs.