NRA starts work to improve safety on dangerous road
(CNS): The National Roads Authority is starting the first phase of a project to improve road safety on Shamrock Road and Hirst Road, designed to reduce congestion and minimise the risk of accidents at
key intersections. From 21 to 23 August, the NRA will oversee the installation of a dedicated right-turn lane for the Savannah Post Office and a centre-turn lane from the post office to the Seventh Day Adventist Church.
The NRA said in a release that this essential initiative is designed to enhance road safety near the Savannah Primary School, a high-traffic area that serves as a vital corridor for students, parents and the community at large. Motorists are reminded to drive with caution and pay close attention to all signage and instructions provided by the road work crew.
The NRA strongly recommends that all commuters use the East-West Arterial Road, which has now expanded to include two east- and westbound lanes.
“The NRA is committed to enhancing road safety across the Cayman Islands and appreciates the community’s patience and cooperation as we undertake these vital improvements,” the authority said.
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There really is t a stretch of cayman road that is dangerous. It’s a small island. We only have idiotic drivers with no sense at all from islands close by
Perhaps the NRA could also work on a project where they let the idiot drivers know that the left lane is for slow traffic, and if you’re in the right lane, doing the same speed as the left… you probably shouldn’t have license.
The downvotes tell you all you need to know about the average IQ of a significant percentage of drivers on our roads.
This is so bad, you will see drivers pull out onto multi-lane roads and immediately get into the right lane, like it’s their natural place to be!
I mean, the road layouts are terrible, and many roundabouts make little sense, but c’mon people, try to engage your brains.
This is not the US there is no fast lane
Stop being facetious. Fast lane, slow lane, inside lane, outside lane…we all know what is meant.
If you are traveling in the right lane, driving below the speed limit, move over into the left lane. That way, regular traffic can overtake you, then they themself can pull into the aforementioned left lane. Everyone does this, bliss. Traffic can go about its way with less need to see tailgating compound the issue.
Still, the people who know the above aren’t the ones reading this.
Eastern Avenue the entrance to Kirk’s Supermarket, they need to fix this too. There’s a bus stop, pedestrian crossing,the exit and entrance to the grocery store on top of each other. Hulda Avenue the south and north pedestrian crossing are too close to the round about.
Taking a look at the RCIP theoretical instructions on how to use a roundabout it does not add up when you drive in a practical situation. There are no illustrations of the double or triple lanes where they are barriers placed on certain roundabouts that prohibit drivers from following the theoretical instructions given.
Drop the speed limit to 25 and enforce it.
Speed cameras.
Very simple.
Pathetic. Learn to drive would be a better option
Impossible
Finally. Why has it taken so long to fix this road??
So what about all the money spent by Government to do the evaluations/assessments/planning/proposals for these roads? Was this not understood by the people who did the evaluations/assessments/planning/proposals that this would be a problematic situation on the roads to build it this way?
Why can’t we get competent things done if we spend all that type of money for assessments etc? Why not spend that money on housing for the suffering Caymanians who cannot afford housing in this high cost of living?
The NRA’s full-time private sector consultant must be making a good penny from all these projects….
Why wait until schools are about to start back to do this ? I swear we need to privatize these government agencies ASAP!!
This should have started the first day school let out for summer
who designed and built this dangerous road?
The main bit of the road has existed in one form or another probably back to the 18th century as a path leading from Pedro St James to Town and going the other way toward the main settlement at Bodden Town
If I had to guess without a primary source to refer to it probably followed a similar reasoning as other roads in the older areas of Cayman that were not clear cut, filled in and developed in the past 50 years – that is to say, in the 20th century the government just looked at whatever the existing path was and paved it as it existed and turned it into a two lane road with no further consideration
There are some older depictions and renderings of George Town from the late 19th and early 20th century that show almost exactly the same thing occurred there – we simply paved over dirt roads which was fine 50 years ago when the population was less than 15,000 but has all but suffocated the centre of George Town in terms of parking, accessibility and room for expansion.
Reminds me of how London has streets that are too small for cars to pass each other, but two carriages would have fit back in the day. The trouble is the construction that prevents road expansion. Instead of laying out roads that made sense, we paved over the space transport already used. No way to fix this except, as Bermuda did, deciding to build a new capital.
I saw a cop pull over a driver who made a right turn, right next to the big “NO RIGHT TURN” sign that is by the orange cones across from the Savannah post office in the middle of the road.
That was so satisfying.
That whole area needs addressing. Long overdue.
So they’ve completed all the other projects that they had started then?
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It’s not the road that’s dangerous.
i mean – it kinda is.
If you’re coming from the east and want to go to the post office, you have to go across 2 lanes. People go way to fast, so they appear in the oncoming lane very quicky (its also on a corner). People are also racing after getting out of fosters / the gas station and not expecting someone to be stopped trying to turn right.