NRA to address poorly laid out junction
(CNS): Roadworks are now well underway at the junction of Homestead Crescent and Shamrock Road in Savannah to address what drivers have long said is a poorly configured intersection. The National Roads Authority has said it is working to realign the junction to improve the sight distance for vehicles entering and exiting.
The work is expected to make minimal changes to the Domino’s parking lot to make way for the new road layout and is due to be finished by the end of May.
In the meantime, the NRA is asking commuters to take extra care in the area as it becomes an active work zone. Motorists are reminded to stay alert, abide by the speed limit and follow work zone signs if and when temporary diversions are made.
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FFS isn’t it more important to fix the Hurleys bottleneck please?
Hopefully not the same road planner that did the McRuss access off Marina Drive. All they had to do there was reverse the entry and exit to the parking lot. Instead they made a total cluster$%#^ out of the roads going into it.
So true
They need to put in a prober overpass make sure its high enough
NRA needs to re-evaluate the design of most roads and roundabouts here. Poor design, poor construction, poor or inadequate markings and signage, etc….
Combine these with poor driving standards. Wha’ a mess!
Well, I’ve mentioned several times that those stupid roundabouts were not what is needed………. but some people make big money putting them in various places, and continue to get richer while they are not doing much to make driving safer. I hate them.
Why don’t they put in another roundabout? We have one at almost every junction. They’re great stress relievers, you can go round and round till you get dizzy, work up an appetite and actually feel like you’ve covered some distance. Domino’s would make a great feature in the centre of a roundabout too with the inside lane serving as parking.
NRA looking at this: Hold my beer!
Have they found a new chairman yet?
Have the owners been paid their compensation yet?
Without the pizza place, this wouldn’t even be an issue. The road could have been capped off as a dead-end, but people gotta get their pizza!
Why not make it a one way street, entrance only?
Exactly my thought for a long time now.
Speaking of NRA, tomorrow on Earth Day, the good people of Cayman will generously mobilize to clean up the many unkempt beachfronts and north sound water lines of private properties owned by the multi-billion DART organization. In some cases, with their own tractors sitting idle across the street. Why can’t our government instruct this developer to manage their properties to the standard of the Lands Law? Thanks to losing land swaps in PPM NRA deals these haven’t been public spaces for over a decade. This is the same organization the PPM selected to manage our dump!?!
Sounds like a lot of trespassing will be taking place. Unless of course they have asked for permission? RCIPS, hope you are paying attention.
Yeah, can’t believe those bastards dumped all that garbage on the land they let the public use freely.
I know right. Crazy how they dump all their household trash and construction waste up in Barkers just so people have something to pick up to get PR points every couple of months.
Signage says it’s private, no liability, but who has time for reading? Dart allows slow pokes to continue to believe its crown land “Safehaven”, sowing confusion on upkeep responsibility because it serves the corporate interest to have others do it for them. Right up until the private property/no trespassing development fences go up, as seen elsewhere.
Honestly, you give them far too much credit.
FFS. Finish something, anything will do, first!
Elections not here yet. Soon come.
If the “fix” is anything like the mess at Grand Harbour, we’re doomed.
Please put stop signs on Hirst Road at the end of the EW arterial.
Get real, stop signs are optional in Cayman .
Stop signs don’t work in Cayman, people fly through them all the time. You have to put “Give Way” signs up instead. Everyone stops for those, even when there is no one else approaching the intersection.
True but it is unnecessarily dangerous to try to turn right exiting the EW bypass at Hirst Rd.
Plus, adding the extra lanes like they are doing won’t correct this foolish problem.
The real Malfunction Junction is the roundabout near Hurley’s. You need to think in multiple dimensions to get out of there and go west.
Traffic shouldn’t be permitted to do anything other than head East from that access. Head East, then use the roundabout by the old car wash to turn around to head back West. I suspect that would really ease up the morning bottleneck also.
actually you could be onto something there. all hurleys/grand harbour traffic could enter and exit after the roundabout and block the entrances on the roundabout forcing all traffic on the roundabout (except SS or town) East. Shave off a little from the car park and grass verge to put in a third lane for them to filter into, so they don’t slow the flow of traffic on the other two lanes going East.
Sealing the Grand Harbour entrance on the roundabout, that could work.
Agree with these suggestions. Force them to leave GH, go east to the roundabout and back down. You should only be able to enter GH at that entrance, you shouldn’t be able to come back out of there. UNLESS they put in a ramp that takes them from GH over the traffic.
I don’t know why it feels like fixing these issues are so hard for us.
Once they fix the merging and cutting in in front of Indigo Bay/Aura it should be a smoother drive as well. At the moment it is too much confusion and someone is going to get hurt or killed leaving GH and stopping in the middle lane to cut and go back to town.
Not really. Its not really that hard at all.
The problem is, people are too impatient and they just go for it.
Why not just make Homestead Crescent one way? Traffic towards Pedro Castle Road only. Then no vehicles would be entering Shamrock Road. Now there will be 2 entrance/exit junctions to Shamrock Road within quite a short distance.