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If you traverse the George Price and Phillip Goldson Highways with any regularity - you'll know that the first mile of each road is in a constant state of disrepair and patchwork repairs. But, in the last few months, the MIDH has decided to re-surface it with hot mix rather than chip and seal which breaks down very quickly. We got an update on the latest effort via zoom from the Chief Engineer:
Evondale Moody, Chief Engineer
"we're basically upgrading between button bay boulevard and the So we're basically upgrading between Buttonwood Bay Boulevard and also the Belcan roundabout. And so on that section. We have divided the project into four segments. And so we have completed two of those segments. And now we're just working on the northbound lane, going from Belize City, to Buttonwood Bay. And this week, we are currently focusing on the section between Belcan and the Coney Drive roundabout. We want to try and see if we could complete that before the Easter holidays. And then thereafter we will look at the final section between Coney Drive and Buttonwood Bay. We had to divide it into sections so that we could allow traffic to continuously pass through. However, you'll notice that I think to two times ago I had to issue notices whereby I had to close the road completely, but that's because we had to apply the mixed asphalt cement. And in an effort to expedite that process, it was best for us to close the road. We will have to do the same thing on the other two remaining sections. But we're trying to see how best we could minimize that."
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