Summit dry-run shuts roads tomorrow
PORT SPAIN
Trinidad & Tobago Newsday
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03 17 09
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SEVERAL roads from Piarco Airport to Port-of-Spain that will conduct guests to next month's Summit of the Americas are due to be shut tomorrow in a dry-run for April, revealed Acting Commissioner of Police James Philbert.
In a statement yesterday he said that under the Motor Vehicle and Road Traffic Act he was making temporary traffic regulations for the movement of traffic for the dry-run.
He said, “There will be a dry run for the Summit of the Americas tomorrow from 1 pm to 5 pm”.
The affected roads are Golden Grove Road (from Caroni North Bank Road to Piarco Roundabout), Churchill Roosevelt Highway (from Mausica Road to Orange Grove Road), BWIA Boulevard, Caroni North Bank Road and Mausica Road.
The western carriageway of BWIA Boulevard will be closed to vehicular traffic, while the eastern carriageway will be converted into a two-way traffic lane to accommodate vehicles entering and leaving Piarco Airport.
Vehicles travelling along the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway en route to St Helena shall proceed south along Mausica Road, and west along Caroni North Bank Road into St Helena. Vehicles travelling to Piarco Airport from St Helena shall proceed north along Caroni North Bank Road, north along the Mausica Road, west along the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway and south along BWIA Boulevard into the airport.
Vehicles travelling west along the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway towards Port-of-Spain shall proceed north along Golden Grove Road, west along the Eastern Main Road, south along Orange Grove Road and continue west along the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway.
Philbert apologised for any inconvenience caused to the motoring public.
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March 12 2009
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