New plan to tackle morning traffic jam cancelled
(CNS) UPDATED: Plans for traffic diversions in the Red Bay/Prospect area that were due to begin Wednesday morning (2 October) were cancelled Tuesday night until further notice. The diversions were said to be an effort to tackle the increasing traffic congestion for drivers commuting from the Eastern Districts into George Town. Police said that the RCIPS Traffic and Roads Policing Unit, the NRA and Traffic Management Panel “will be conducting additional aerial review of the traffic flow in these areas” Wednesday morning.
If the diversions had gone ahead, they were planned to last from 6:00am to 9:00am, when police were going to divert all eastbound traffic left along Shamrock Road after passing through Grand Harbour.
No vehicles would have been permitted to travel along the East West Arterial until the Chrissie Tomlinson Roundabout in an effort to make the Red Bay roundabout flow more freely.
Under the plan, westbound traffic would not be allowed to turn left onto Old Prospect Road before the Chrissie Tomlinson Roundabout to prevent drivers from beating the congestion at that roundabout. Police said there would be traffic diversions in place at the King’s Roundabout and the Linford Pierson Highway Roundabout junction with Agnes Way in an effort to improve and speed up the the flow of traffic from the east into George Town.
Traffic officers were going to be present in these areas directing traffic.
The ministry responsible for infrastructure and roads has been battling a further surge in traffic congestion since the schools returned last month. A combination of a growing population living in the Eastern Districts and a change in the school start time has added to an already sticky traffic problem.
Last month Planning Minister Joey Hew held an emergency meeting with all of the stakeholders, where a number of potential solutions were discussed, such as the creation of a private schools bus service and widening the existing roads.
The report on CNS attracted more than 200 comments, demonstrating the massive concern the public has about the current congestion.
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The traffic is a huge problem, half the problem are the idiotic drivers that speed up when they approach a roundabout and give no one trying to enter a second. Dangerous and stupid.
Yes, roundabouts are meant to improve traffic flow. However, if drivers don’t approach them correctly and don’t use their indicators and don’t stay in the correct lane them you have a huge traffic jam! For this reason alone they should be a thing of the past.
Well I just realised something depressing. We can’t have a proper bus system here, because our road system is already big enough to accommodate most of the cars, therefore most people will not stop driving, traffic will remain, making it impossible for buses to run on time, so people will not use them.
We are f****d.
“…because our road system is already big enough??? ”
What kind of argument is that? Nearly every city in the world has “big road” systems, whatever that means AND they do have proper Public Bus transit systems.
People DO TAKE buses to commute to/ from work everywhere in the world.
Stop overthinking, get some fresh air instead of staring at your screen.
And where should I go to get that fresh air in this paradise…
Disney World skylines cable car 🚠
https://www.wdwinfo.com/disney-world/transportation/skyliner.htm
what a fun commute, above mosquitos great views, come on cayman this is what we need
The roundabouts on a main highway I haven’t seen before (maybe they do this in uk)?
I think there would need to be lights on the roundabouts all the way to east end if we are going to see traffic flow properly.
its not a highway…its a two lane road.
roundabouts improve traffic flow. do some research.
They only improve traffic flow if a) people use them properly b) the volume of traffic going around the roundabout and crossing another major road feeding in doesn’t get above a certain tipping point, at which point the second feeder road gets completely blocked (hence the addition of traffic lights on many major roundabouts in the UK)
Exactly
The assumption that almost the entirety of Grand Cayman’s working population *needs* to be in George Town is fundamentally flawed, and this is the key to resolving issues with traffic. Relocating Government administration out to the east would be a start – this is within Government’s gift – with incentives for organisations within the private sector to follow suit. Applying traffic management measures within the existing infrastructure is like trying to stem the flow from an axe wound with a band-aid. Encouraging people to use a monorail to travel into George Town would require a huge cultural shift away from car usage that I don’t think there’s an appetite for. If you think that’s the solution, I’ve got a monorail you can buy.
The western side of the island is the only area built-up enough for people here to feel like they are enjoying some semblance of a first-world life with convenient access to goods and services. For as long as that remains the case, all activity will be concentrated there.
See: Manhattan
How about the cops go and pull people over who go straight on red bay rd and cut in front of everyone they were just behind of to get into the same roundabout! Assholes. Not to mention those who cut through Patrick’s island to get to prospect dr.
I would much rather see a $200 million Monorail System than a same costing Cruise Berthing facility!
I would not trust them with my child’s toy train set. Monorail in Cayman, besides being a ridiculous idea, is like wanting to built a space ship launching pad.
Let’s just go with a state of the art bus system. Use Bermuda as the model. We cannot possibly handle a monorail or space ship launching pad. Hell, we have a hard time with the electronic parking gates at the airport.
$200 mil ? Laughing, Try $2 BN ( Billion ).
Some years ago I used to represent the organization where I worked on the Public Transport Board. Simultaneously, my duties required frequent travel to Bermuda where I experienced the excellent efficiency of their public transport system (buses and ferries). On one visit I returned with names/contacts of Bermuda’s transportation officials, photos of the Hamilton terminal, copies of schedules and other info and recommended that our PTB contact the Bermuda officials to seek their assistance in creating a proper system here.
Guess what, that’s been over 10 years ago and no move made as yet! No surprise! Morons in charge here!
I left later expecting this… Silly me for expecting government to keep their word.
They announced they were doing this on the radio several times on the way home between 5 and 7, and then cancelled it later in the night, when no-one is listening.
Do they realize the implications? People have jobs to get to. I know in the government it is okay to show up 1 hour late, but not where most of us work.
I take issue with your ignorant comment that in the Government it is okay to show up one hour late.
For your information, the Government has been encouraging its employees to take advantage of flex times so that everyone is not trying to get in for 8:30 and out for 5:00pm.
Get your facts straight before making ignorant comments or maybe it is someone in your household who saunters into work an hour late and you are projecting that on others.
Its not just schools, or we wouldnt be stuck in traffic going west from 4.30 until 7pm. its not just the huge number of cars imported. Its not just people cutting across slip roads and rejoining later roundabouts. Its not just one thing, its all of it.
But a workable solution that would have immediate effect is to reduce the number of vehicles, and the most simplest way of all is to make it illegal for all non-emergency vehicles to have only 1 person in them. Any car travelling with one person (i.e no passengers, only a driver) will be pulled over and fined on the spot, etc. yes, draconian. But it will work, and apply it all over the Island.
how would this work? Unless I have someone who lives with me and works at the same place and the same hours as me. I would have to be in the car alone at some point.
Exactly!! Tell me how it would work for me. I do not have to be in the morning rush hour traffic unless I have to go to doctors appointment in the morning part of the day , then once I am finished drive back home. Even if I picked up someone along the way who has an entirely different business to conduct or going to work until 5:00 how would that person get home in the afternoons. If there was proper bus service, not those mini buses with those crazy drivers, I would gladly take one and leave my car at home as I am sure others would gladly do.
How can you practically immediately reduce the number of vehicles without offering something in exchange? Do you want to create civil disobedience? If full size clean and air-conditioned buses that run on schedule were implemented, at least 30% of daily commuters would take a bus to/from work. No need for the prohibition.
8:27 am Gimme a break buddy, that’s unrealistic until we have a PROPER public transportation system in place!! I have to drive 2 kids across town to 2 different schools, so only after they’re at school am I in my car alone, on my way back to work. So you’re saying I should then be pulled over and fined? That’s not going to work. Get school buses, make realistic school bus stops (not every 20 feet, these kids can walk a few blocks to get to a bus stop! Stagger work times could help as well, but until we have a decent, REAL public transportation system- you can’t expect families to carpool all over the island b/c they only have one car.
This idea is so bad I am not sure if the poster was being sarcastic or serious?
I’m Caymanian & live alone. I have to get to work from Prospect to north West Bay Road where I work in a small office with no one coming from the east. Exactly how am I supposed to get to work unless I drive myself? I am 60+ & my home is not on a bus route, plus it would take me 2 buses each way daily even if I could walk marina drive to get to the bus stop. Is this really how you want to treat senior citizens?!
everyone keep calm and do not feed the troll
If you need to travel on island for your job, we then need to take someone else along for the ride. Then do we charge more or lose money? Tough when you are a one man company. I question whether people have brains sometimes.
Send me your address and I will pick you up at 6:30am sharp.
You can be my travelling buddy!
Okay people! Stop talking to each other proposing all kind of solutions. Your fat cats don’t read your messages. They enjoy touring the world, posing for photos, biking etc…. Life is good for them.
Unless you occupy your streets and demand answers, you all look like idiots. And THEY ARE laughing. Life is good for them.
(On December 2, 2016 thousands of residents of Bermuda protested and blocked elected Members of Parliament from entering the House of Assembly.)
Agreed. A lot of dumb suggestions in here leading to arguments. That’s not going to help anyone
Superb points 8:12. For some reason, which I cannot explain, people in Bermuda are far more politically active and engaged in their civic life on island than we are on Grand Cayman. As a result, they generally have a higher quality of people who go into politics.
Because Caymanians were taught to be obedient and submissive by the UK 150 years ago when they handed out all those bibles, so they’re grateful for what they have and don’t want to risk losing it by registering an opinion. They were also not properly educated historically and that remains the case. By temperament, Caymanians would be quite active politically if they knew how often they were being lied to and taken advantage of, but they don’t due to the first two (not inclined to challenge authority and not educated to know when they should).
what about Bermudians?
They assassinated a governor.
But they have an excellent bus system.
For all intents and purposes, so did we.
Biggest lie was one man one vote and single member constituencies. Now we get those who can’t get or hold a job doing anything representing us.
Don’t want to offend uncle’s daughter’s sister who is in government, that’s why there’s no protests here.
what about Bermudians?
why not to offend “uncle’s daughter’s sister”?
Because that is not the Caymanian way. We are a totally non confrontational people.
Everyone who drives Cayman roads knows that the traffic is always better when the schools are out over the summer. The reason for this is very simple, there are less cars on the road in the summer. The biggest reason why the traffic keeps getting worse overall is because there are more and more cars being licenced and put on the road every day, every week, very year.
According to the government statistics office, the population grew from 55,747 in 2013 to 65,813 in 2018. That’s an increase of 18% in 5 years, or 3.4% per year.
A population increase of 3.4% per year is extremely high. Few countries experience this. Don’t take my word, browse around and see what rates of population other countries have been experiencing in recent years. You’ll probably find only a few countries that have had a higher rate. By the way, Monaco’s population grew by 1.26% per year over the same 5 year period that Cayman’s was growing by 3.4% per year, and in 2018 Monaco’s population was 38,682. I guess they chose quality over quantity, and they’re obviously in no rush to get to 100,000!!
Now everyone would agree that our rapid increase in population would be expected to cause an increase in the number of vehicle imports. But you ran a story on June 17 this year saying Car Imports Soaring https://caymannewsservice.com/2019/06/car-import-figures-soaring/ . According to the figures in your story, the number of vehicle imports per year grew from 2,287 in 2013 to 4,457 in 2018. That’s an increase of 95% per year in 5 years, or 14% per year.
It is widely known in the community that there has been a huge increase in the importation of used Japanese cars; everyone knows that. Everyone knows that these vehicles can be had for a few thousand dollars. Common sense says that we are getting more vehicles and less revenue.
Minister Hew is responsible for the Vehicle Licensing department. He should have known this even without reading your article. Seemingly he did not and he mustn’t have seen your article or one on the front page of the Compass a week earlier https://www.caymancompass.com/2019/06/11/roads-clogged-as-vehicle-imports-rocket/.
He should have been holding his big meeting 2 weeks after those articles came out, not 2 weeks after school opened in September. So let me try to spell it out to Minister Hew: the problem on Cayman roads is too many cars sir, TOO MANY CARS.
Not only has your government been allowing the population to grow rapidly by 3.4% per year, you have allowed the importation of vehicles to increase by 14% PER YEAR. Did you not expect traffic problems Minister Hew? Did you think that all you needed to do was to hold a meeting with a few officials and then fly off to Monaco and it would have all been sorted out when you got back?
Too many stupid elected officials. Buses and overpasses would fix your problems.
PROHIBITION never worked.
Stupid idea 8:15. Overpasses everywhere will not solve the traffic problems.
at bottlenecks
6:40, Do you have any idea how many bottlenecks there are in the George Town area?
people need cars here
They only need cars if there is absolutely no alternative.
Which there isn’t.
So find an alternative before we have total gridlock. Total gridlock is coming. Just do the math related to how many new cars are put on the road every year.
8:52, Thats what they thought in downtown London and downtown NYC 50 years ago until basically total gridlock was happening downtown every week day. Then the politicians took action because something had to be done. We are headed that way too, as we put thousands of new vehicles onto the roads every year.
RADICAL solutions are required now. If Bermuda can do it we can to.
I have 2 cars, but only one is driven at a time. Number if cars is NOT the problem.
Of course the number of cars are the problem. If you have an unlimited number of cars there are only so many roads you can build. Think about it. Basic common sense and basic math.
Alden: “Hey Joe, you know what would help to solve Grand Cayman’s traffic problems?”
Joey: “Ahh, another trip to Monaco?”
Alden: “You got it!! Eric, pack your bags, we going again bobo. All expenses paid again by the Cayman sheeple.”
LOL! Smack on!
I drives a bus and sometimes there are about 5 people in the bus while the traffic is backed up and I will see other buses in traffic half full .There are many buses on the road that if you guys were to support would help reduce the traffic.
How come you’re not on one of them?
What part of that comment did you miss? Like, where his first 4 words are “I drives a bus”… Like, ?
Just stop it. You do understand his comment.
The writer is a BUS DRIVER!!!!!!!! They are absolutely correct. However, driver, all buses will need to ALWAYS be operated in a professional manner following a professional system.
Because half the bus drivers are some of the worst drivers I see on the road.
when you all drive like lunatics !!! no thanks
The buses don’t run on schedule and are totally unreliable. Adopt the bus system in Bermuda ASAP which is excellent. I used to use it every day when I lived there.
Because it would take me longer to walk to the nearest (not very near) bus stop, then take two buses,and then walk from the bus stop to my not-near office, than it takes me to drive myself.
I once checked the cost of catching the bus (after walking to the not-near bus stop) for a ‘long drive’ to the other side of the island for a weekend special event. It was going to cost me more in bus fare than in gas. (So you have to take into account the ‘sunk cost’ of my already purchased automobile when considering why I don’t use buses for non-work transport.) And that’s before factoring in the reputed ‘irregularity’ of weekend eastern district bus service.
I have lived other places and used public transport. It has to be efficient (timely), affordable (subsidized) and accessible (routes near to all homes and commerce) for it to be effective. What Cayman currently has is … ineffective.
Which is why you see me in traffic when the bus is half-full.
you left out it has to be clean and for me no blaring noise pretending to be music that only the driver seems to understand.
public buses vs. private buses…go see how it works everywhere in the world.
@1:04 pm If bus system is set up properly, your walk to a bus system would be short.
If we got rid of private buses and moved to a public system, we would also reduce the expatriate population overnight. However the civil service would increase.
1:43, That did not happen in Bermuda. Why should it happen here?
Maybe try to stay on your route and be dependable.
Build the bridge already. Can be built year round without creating more traffic problems while it is done.
Or the monorail……
…or a wall… #makecaymangreatagain
flying saucers
we have a plan….oh no we don’t.
just another day in wonderland.
LOL!
The plan appears to be, as a first step, to build all the roads we know we have space for while we figure out the rest. I predict the road building will finish, and nothing else will have been done.
the incompetence of cig civil service is beyond belief…..
Don’t blame the CIG civil service. The politicians have to make the big decisions. That’s why we elect them.
Park and ride facility in Prospect. Low cost bus shuttles into town every 10 mins at peak times, following a fixed route to include stops suitable for the big employers. If that isn’t enough, consider congestion charges for those driving the busy routes at peak rush hour
This is CAYMAN! This will never work here. Vehicles would be stolen, vandalized even with security! Congestion charges? You have got to be kidding. While your fat cats touring the world on your dime, doing nothing for YOU, you propose to fine Joe the plumber and his employer?
Traffic on Crewe road was bumper to bumper at 8:00 this evening.. this fixed nothing. If anything this plan made it worse.
People shouldn’t be taking Crewe anyway! That’s why there’s a bypass. Crewe people just muck up the Kings roundabout by shoving themselves into traffic. Linford Pierson drivers even worse for letting them in. They need another light like the south sound one there.
Or at the very least reduce the top of Crewe Road back down to one lane where it meets the Kings roundabout.
Perhaps, after all is said and done, they should just get rid of all the roundabouts as it seems not everyone knows how to use them. Stop signs at all side roads approaching the by passes around the Island.
Create clean & safe bike corridors, and a lot of the congestion bottlenecks will dissolve away. Simple as that. We have the roadway space already…just need channelizing humps that separate vehicles, paint, and a couple dozen volunteers one weekend with a stencil. Less than $250k total in Alibaba orders for safe east-west and north-south corridors that open up the idea that folks can ride where they need to go and not die.
About 30 years too late. Safe biking corridors require space and there is none. Biking in hot and humid climate with no shower facilities at work is a fantasy. Cayman is not Amsterdam where mom safely takes 2 kids on her bike to school.
Until recently I might have agreed with you, until I tried an e-bike. It is like riding a bike for the first time. Today’s duty-free 36v 350w E-bikes can cruise at 20-30kph for over two hours (50-60km of range) with the barest of rotational movement from the cyclist and no sweat at all – in fact you might need a windbreaker on some of our winter days. All that’s missing are the corridors to make it a viable commuter choice. Then there are the hotels offering pedal bikes and tourists on Segways – where are they supposed to go? There are already painted shoulder areas that are supposed to be “safe bike lanes”, but they are only secured with a millimeters-high line of latex paint that nobody seems to observe – esp at roundabouts. There need to be humps and bollards – at least on one side of the road for certain main corridors east/west and north/south – so that there is a safe two-way path for cyclists. Zero new paving necessary, only better thinking, and consultation with the substantial existing cycling community.
Cayman should check out the public transport system of Bermuda.
https://www.gov.bm/department/public-transportation
https://www.bermuda-attractions.com/bermuda_000091.htm
Bermuda is smaller than Cayman, but their public transportation system is terrific and extremely reliable. People can live there without owning any vehicle as the public transport system, which includes buses and ferries, which run on the dot, connect to almost the whole of the island.
The fare is pretty cheap too, with 1 month pass costing USD 69, which can be used unlimited times within a calendar month on buses as well as ferries.
Having s reliable public transport system would and should ease the traffic woes to a great extent. It is not just about children having to be dropped off to school. Even an adult worker could use the public transport when it is reliable, connects every part of the island, and is reasonably priced, thereby reducing the traffic in the roads.
Of course, private school buses would also help ease traffic a lot in the interim.
They also have a limit of one car per household and they cost WAY more than they do here. There is also very limited parking in Hamilton.
The public buses are great though, you’re right about that.
I lived in Bermuda. Riding a scooter was out of the question for 115 lb female. The number of daily scooter related accident and deaths in Bermuda IS very high. Scooter drivers in Bermuda are like roaches- they follow no traffic rules and use every opening on the road to squeeze into, endangering themselves and everyone else around them.
Bermuda also has many blind corners with no sidewalks and stone walls on both sides. So I mostly walked on good days, 25 min. and took a bus on rainy days, to work, to a beach, to tour the island. Walking wasn’t completely safe as some portions of the road had no sidewalks or sidewalks were 3 feet wide with vehicles parked directly on it. My housemate, Bermudian born woman was giving me rides on her scooter once in a while.
Nevertheless, Bermuda buses work like a clock. If you are 2 min. late your bus is gone. But the next one comes in 15 min. during rush hours. Buses are clean, in good repair and air-conditioned. Monthly passes were affordable. Bus drivers were EXTREMELY skillful. They could stop literally inches from hitting a scooter in front of them. Majority of expats working in Hamilton took buses to work. Bermuda visitors also love public buses.
The bus system in Bermuda is great, reliable and cost effective, and it’s used by everyone – Bermudian’s and expats. Like Cayman, Bermuda is a ‘funny shape’ but its much more evenly spread out and has more economic/business centres, yet doesn’t have the space to widen the two lane roads. There’s a workers/tourist ferry too!
Cayman can learn a lot from Bermuda on public transport, they also have an incinerator – they actually laugh at Cayman’s ever growing Mt Trashmore which is rather embarrassing 😉
We have an incinerator, but we don’t have the proper filters/scrubbers. So we just burn stuff in it, and it goes straight into the air unfiltered, (you can read up on it and find out that the toxicity level is so high it can cause immediate health issues). Add it to the lack of car emission regulations (many catalytic convertors are just rotted), and the cruise ships emissions which equal around 1 million cars idling while in port (per ship). No wonder they don’t monitor the air here!
Reduce motorcycle licensing fees and duties under 450cc
Why everybody moan about traffic! It happen all over the world. If people start working as flexiable hours then traffic won’t be a problem. Also the side road where people use as rat race road, it need be block off.
It’s especially frustrating on a small island. People who move or visit from large countries and cities will be wanting to get away from traffic and the feeling and lost time of ‘commuting’ and will not be happy that we have those problems too.
Because we all feel it can be fixed with some simple solutions that would be good for the island and we have been saying this for years but the useless politicians have done nothing because they fly the world and don’t ever sit in traffic.
Damn set of idiots thinking of this idea. No way can it work plus it will mean additional Police to supervise. Guess Alden can take the funding from our so called surplus to pay overtime to the police as well as pay medical services for the additional mad people sitting in their cars.
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Or maybe the RCIPS could fund it themselves by enforcing the laws: seatbelts, illegal tint, people on their phones, child seats, indication, speeding just to name a few. They could fund the entire service by enforcing the law.
We all understand that the population is growing rapidly. Maybe another recession will come along and slow things down a bit but even if that happens growth will likely resume on the same course within a couple years.
Building roads is expensive, takes a long time and there are no easy solutions for the Hurleys roundabout in particular.
One solution which seems obvious to me but doesn’t seem to be very popular is implementing a bus service with actual normal-sized buses, fixed bus stops and a schedule so that people could actually rely on them to get to work. In the grand scheme of things buying some buses isn’t that expensive. Of all the things the government subsidises here this seems like an obvious one which would benefit everybody. Politically it should be a winner as the bus driver lobby can’t be that important. What am I missing here?
You are missing the importance of the bus driving cabal.
Train them to drive buses. They’ll have more passengers, and more skills, and probably more money. $2 to go anywhere on the island is not a good deal for them. They can keep their vans for personal use.
It would be hard to attract people onto even the most comfortable buses until the driving standard for bus driver is raised.
They must be certified overseas. Mechanics for pubic buses must also be certified overseas. It should be started ASAP
I agree with sentiments expressed above. The problem is not Old Prospect Drive. It is drivers leaving “Chrissie Tomlinson” roundabout and heading to Prospect and then rejoining the by pass at the Red Bay roundabout. They get “right of way” for basically pushing in!
That is another reason it would be good to replace all roundabouts with traffic lights. The most important reason being accidents. The extra cost of installing and maintaining traffic lights cannot be more important than preventing accidents!
You have accidents at traffic lights too boss. About one per month by the Cricket pitch
One per month?! More like 1 a day!
Definitely more accidents on roundabouts. At least most people know hoe to “use” the traffic lights, in contrast, most people don’t know how to use roundabouts. How about a mandatory practical lesson for every driver on how to use roundabouts!
It is not OLD Prospect Point Road it is simply Prospect Point Road – no Old
CNS please stop perpetuating the error – the road is not OLD Prospect Point Road it is simply Prospect Point Road – no Old. Thank you!
The confusion comes from the district being named as ‘old prospect’ on maps. We are actually in the Red Bay voting district.
Probably the same people who are using the turning lane to skip the line of cars on Crewe Road after Kings Gym (put cops there in the morning). And the same ones using Old Crewe Road in the evening to get onto South Sound Road (put cops there in the evening).
I feel so sorry for these people that live on the east side of the island, the ultimate solution will lie with a large fleet of 50 seats buses and some smaller buses for the smaller side roads, it’s really four districts heading into one, where as west bay is 1 district heading into all the other districts, and west bay has more road ways so they probably won’t face the traffic problem anytime soon
Have a REWARD SYSTEM in place for taking the bus. Simple. People will be happy to get something back whilst taking public transport.
The reward will be not having to spend hours every weekday stuck in traffic.
Closing old Prospect Road will have no effect. That only protects the residents in there from having all that through traffic. It will only back up traffic on the main road even more. Traffic coming out of Old Prospect have to wait for a break in traffic, so it will have no effect at all other than to make it worse.
Why control traffic going East during those times? There is never a traffic problem going East.
Police need to stop the through traffic during those times, from using the Northward junction to come out on to Will T drive. That causes major backups further East. Also as a previous writer said Police should control and/or ticket the road users who are using the left lanes on the Christie Tomlinson and Auto Spa roundabouts incorrectly.
It is not OLD Prospect Point Road it is simply Prospect Point Road – no Old
cayman is past the tipping point…..and this problem will only explode more in the next 12-18 months as some major residnetial developments around prospect get completed.
cig messed up as usual when they put goab in town……a fatal mistake for cayman.
whatever they are doing ..it is failing and this nonsense will not help.
i have never seen traffic so bad in cayman.
free solutions:
car-pool lanes…. tolls for single occupancy vehicles.
bring in uber.
Build a mono rail utilizing the center medium and roundabouts and run it along side the roads. China can build it for the Cayman Islands.
Oh God no, not the Chinese please.
Yeah then we pay tolls to the Chinese and they own it, trust me that’s how they do work.
Let’s become a colony of China. Dump the British.
Yes look how the people of former British colony of Hong Kong love their new Chinese masters! (Sarcasm).
This couldn’t have come soon enough. ..Crazy disrespectful drivers are zooming through Prospect Point Rd in the mornings with utterly no regard for the school zone, and pedestrians.
If your destination is the Montessori school ,and you are traveling west bound, then it would probably be a good idea for the school to issue a type of sticker/pass that can be shown to the traffic Officers that they may allow local access in the mornings .
Overall, this measure is most welcomed by the residents of Prospect Point as the road should not be used as a highway .
And who are the rocket scientists who came up with this brilliant idea?
How much money is Govt going to pay for this experiment in stupidity?
Must be the same morons who lane change every five seconds and block up the traffic because they could not get their butts outtake bed on time.
It is obvious the people who thought of this never sit in traffic in the morning or evening.
Senseless
Just Another Day in Absurdistan
Another dumb move by RCIPS and NRA
Could you imagine…a country has to call the police on themselves because they messed up traffic management and over-imported thousands of vehicles. Damn. Thank you to our police who are helping clean this absolute mess, stay cool out there.
Why do people constantly complain about the number of cars imported onto the island??? The issue is the number of licensed drivers. Don’t tell me how many cars were imported, tell me how many drivers licenses were issued. Has there been significant growth there? Limiting car imports (as some have suggested elsewhere) has no effect on the number of cars on the road at any given time.
I understand your perspective. But think of it this way, if there are more cars on island, there are more options, they become cheaper and more accessible, which means more people are driving, which means more cars per household, which means less carpooling, which ultimately means more traffic, pollution and cars to rot away on the side of the road once they are done with them for eternity.
Best leave at 6am tomorrow to watch the chaos unfold…
More like 5:30 am.
When are they going to reintroduce stopping people cutting through Patrick’s Island near the CIFA field then through onto Marina and Prospect Drive – used to be able to leave the house at 7.30am then and still get to St Ignatius for 7.45am…
I think individuals should wait until after the first or second morning before bashing this idea. I really don’t think it could be any worse than it is but let’s wait and see.
What a complete waste of effort. The bottlenecks will still exist:
1) The junction of LPH and Bobby Thompson Way;
2) Smith Road West of the traffic lights;
3) Crewe Road
4) The junction of Agnes Way and Crewe Road
5) The road around the West end of the airport
6) Malfunction Junction
7) Dorcy Drive and N. Sound Road from Parker’s to the ALT roundabout.
I fail to see how traffic heading East using the Red Bay roundabout impedes the flow of traffic in the opposite direction; each uses half of the roundabout.
Stopping people travelling Westbound from entering Old Prospect road has no effect on the main flow coming from Red Bay primary or the Bypass as when they rejoin traffic at the Red Bay roundabout they don’t have the right of way, that’s a waste of time to enforce that.
What they need to do is make sure that people coming from Red Bay primary enter that roundabout and stay in the RIGHT LANE, as those who go all the way around in the left lane are CUTTING OFF EVERYONE ELSE trying to get on the roundabout coming from the bypass which is a significantly greater volume.
Thank you. All traffic coming from Red Bay, heading into town should stay in the right lane, and use their indicators. Been saying this forever.
Prospect Point Rd should not be treated like a highway. So, great, residents welcome the diversion .
its a public road, why should the driving public not be allowed to use it???
If people drive through at a safe speed instead of racing though to beat the traffic it would be ok. There’s idiots however that race through ignoring the school on the road & the parents trying to get their children safely across the road.
I wouId like to see the speed bumps along the road increased sufficient to force drivers to go at 25mph or less. Then it would not be used as a short cut off the by pass.
Almost 20 years ago an amendment was made to the Traffic Law making it illegal for heavy equipment to be on the roads between 7:00am and 9:00am weekdays. It has never been implemented! These measures are just as moronic!
I’m embarrassed to call my self Caymanian with people like this in charge of our politics and our Government departments!
Wow a Law that is not enforced? In Cayman? Not possible.
Roper. You noticing a trend? You here for good governance or not?
But realistically we can’t start building flyovers all over George Town, with thousands of new cars put on our roads every year.
Exactly the reason why the Dart, Chamber of Commerce and Government “Growth Growth” campaign is total madness.
People need cars to get to work, children to schools, etc., etc.
No bus system can ever efficiently serve our hodge podge separated communities.
Our crazy rapidly expanding imported population working at slave wages pool together to get to work etc.
The Minimum Wage must not be less than CI $10.00 Per Hr.
We need to control growth of the population to be a percentage of the generational Caymanian population. This will naturally limit the number of cars needed on the road.
Joey tell Mac and Alden they created and are fuelling the traffic problem because of their expand the population to 100,000 and over policies.
No bus system can ever efficiently serve our hodgepodge separated communities. ABSOLUTE NONSENSE. Why can Bermuda do it efficiently and effectively? They got their new airport right with the Canadians and their bus system is brilliant compared to our joke of a bus system. Perhaps rather than going to Monaco 3 times in 13 months our leaders can go to Bermuda and learn from them about basic transportation and waste management too.
Fed up on Grand Cayman.
A simple solution – A BUS LOTTO SYSTEM ! Government need to implement some reward system like lucky bus seat numbers, etc … that will encourage people to use public transportations.
PROBLEM SOLVE 😉
Gambling for a bus seat.
Please explain
You will need to have reliable public buses that can handle the volume of people first. The current beat up mini buses could not make a dent in the volume of people travelling by car, even if they could be persuaded to leave their comfortable cars for the current buses.
This is going to do about as much good as the light at old crew road. How does the traffic going east slow down traffic coming west at the Chrissie Tomlinson RAB
why don’t you run for premier!
Sounds like it is going to be chaos! The only way to fix this is to build a flyover at the Grand Harbour roundabout and to widen the road to four lanes at the equestrian centre and Bobby Thompson Way. The fact that this has not been done already is mind-boggling.
I agree.
None of these changes will assist the grid lock at Hurleys roundabout to the airport/cricket field.
Good police will be out at the junctions though to stop traffic trying to cut through residential roads such as Prospect Point Road, however I drop my daughter at the Montessori school on that road & I come from the east. So I will have to go to the next roundabout & then drive back?
The Government is not that smart. They can’t see what is in front of them so they can not make a plan much less get it done. Better to just keep them paid and playing at their desks then to have them outside and messing things up. Dart could fix it. But that is why he is hated so much by the Bushits so he can’t even try. Cayman will still be third world for at least another generation.
Flyovers everywhere are not the answer. Very short sighted.
No one is saying flyovers everywhere, just at the main bottle neck on the island. A flyover would help the flow of traffic coming to and from town immensely by not requiring traffic that does not need local access to have to enter onto the roundabout. It’s done on busy roundabouts all over the world, why not here?
The jam going home is at Hurleys but going it the traffic blocks at the end of Linford by the horse stables & Joses – do we put flyovers there?
Go via GT to office on WB Road & the jam is by the cruise ships terminals (the bloody dancing policeman needs to know he’s entertaining to the tourists but annoying to the drivers he has backed up to San Sebastián & sometimes beyond). So another flyover over him?
Once you set the precedent with one flyover then flyovers will become the norm. As we put more than a thousand new vehicles on the road every year we will be be building flyovers all around George Town. Not a sustainable solution. We live on a dinky island so don’t compare our problem with the rest of the world.