NRA to start work widening Crewe Road to six lanes
(CNS): Five years after work first started to create a six-lane highway linking the Chrissie Tomlinson Roundabout through the Red Bay Roundabout up to Grand Harbour, work will begin this weekend on the stretch of Crewe Road that links up to the CUC roundabout. The National Roads Authority said the multi-phase road widening initiative aims to increase traffic capacity on the primary arterials into George Town and the intersections supporting them at Grand Cayman’s worst traffic bottleneck.
The expansion is being carried out in segments, as the process requires the relocation of utilities and the removal and replacement of boundary walls, fences and other structures. The work will take place between the Grand Harbour Roundabout and the CUC Roundabout on both the eastbound and westbound lanes.
For more information on road projects, visit the NRA website.
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We keep pouring concrete and asphalt on this tiny island contributing to global warming. Hope you all understand our failure to take heed is creating more environmental issues like more severe and intense hurricanes before peak season in September.
We don’t need more lanes “parking lot” we need traffic signals instead of round abouts. There is no traffic control with round abouts. If we want to prove this put traffic cops at all intersections from Town and from ALT to Grand Harbour and see how there is no traffic.
This place is crazy.
I love how they try to encourage indicator use, then have the most crazy assed signage. E.g. entering Kings (CUC) roundabout from LPH, it’s pretty much a 90 degree turn, but they use straight arrows. Same for the new roundabout, 3 lanes all go straight, but it’s in fact another giant right hand turn just with straight arrows. How’s this decided?
Entering the new roundabout from Fairbanks, it is two lanes to pull into three, but the amount of cars in the right most lane that then goes into the middle lane!!! Please put some signs to explain how this works.
can they just finish one project before starting another.
its almost like the NRA have to be kept busy…..but of course that is the truth…if nra stopped their ‘projects’ their numbers and budget would be cut.
bonkers system
from the people who said building more roads is not the solution….yep, you are getting more roads!
welcome to wonderland
NRA said it wasn’t the solution.
Politicians only know how to order more roads. The holistic approach is hard and so they’re not going for that. Easier to just tell NRA to outsource some more asphalt paving.
the worse you create conditions for pedestrians and cyclists, the more you force people to get behind the wheel of a car and thereby provoke traffic jams.
the question of transport is a question of mathematics and geometry. these sciences do not care what your culture or climate is because these are objective indicators.
In general, mathematicians and economists have long proved that the more roads you make, the more you actually get more cars and even more traffic jams.
4 postulates proven by mathematicians that say that it makes no sense to add new lanes or build flyovers in an urban environment
1️⃣ The Pigou-Knight-Downs paradox states that expanding road capacity does not reduce travel cost because traffic may simply shift to the upgraded road from other roads, which increases the congestion of the upgraded road.
2️⃣ The Downs-Thomson Paradox- traffic will increase without limit until the option of public transport (or any other form of transport) becomes faster than the equivalent trip by car.
3️⃣Dietrich Braess’s paradox is the observation that adding one or more roads to a road network can slow down overall traffic flow through it.
4️⃣Lewis-Mogridge postulates
that as more roads are built, more traffic consequently fills these roads. Speed gains from some new roads can disappear within months, if not weeks. Sometimes, new roads help to reduce traffic jams, but, in most cases, the congestion is only shifted to another junction.
Mathematics don’t care if it is London, Paris, New York or Grand Cayman and Bermuda.
But I was laughed at and assured by the NRA when they were partially taking away my land that this stretch of road would remain 4 lanes maximum.
Bottom line, don’t trust the NRA.
The Grand Harbour roundabout is a nightmare. IDK what they were thinking when they put that there.
more lanes does not solve the traffic problem.
speading workblocations, work from home, different work times and especially in cayman better education on how to use the road and your indicators.
last but not least, revoke driver liscences from anti social drivers.
Just one more lane guys, we’ll definetely solve traffic problem then!
Can’t quite follow the frowns on this one. We all agree that the bottleneck is Grand Harbour. More lanes from there is part of the solution. (Yes, still needed in the other direction(s) from Grand Harbour but this should be not nothing.)