The National Works Agency (NWA) has ramped up a number of activities in the Corporate Area and St. Catherine for the start of the new school year, next Monday.

The agency says it is focusing on ensuring that critical corridors are available to its customers.

Communication and

Customer Services Manager, at the NWA, Stephen Shaw says the activities include

the laying of the first layer of asphalt on all the corridors and the

installation of traffic signals at critical locations.

Works will continue

along Constant Spring Road, Hagley Park Road, Barbican Road, Camp Road and Port

Henderson Road.

Constant Spring Road from Manor Park to West Kings House Road will be opened to the motoring public. This will accommodate four lanes of traffic.

Traffic will also be allowed along the entire stretch of Hagley Park Road. The Three Miles area will again be open to vehicular traffic.

The two bridges constructed as part of the overall works will be put into service.

Motorists travelling from the direction of Marcus Garvey Drive and Portmore Toll Road to Half Way Tree will use the upper level bridge, while those along Spanish Town Road, heading to or from downtown Kingston will use the lower bridge.

Additionally, Shaw

says that 12 points across Kingston and St. Catherine will be

controlled by traffic signals. 

These include: Cassava Piece Road, Mannings Hill Road and Hillman Road, along

Constant Spring Road; and Keesing Avenue, Omara Road and Three Miles in the

Hagley Park Road area

The NWA also intends

to have traffic signals in operation at Germaine Road, Pepperwood and the Naggo

Head/Newlands intersection in Portmore, St. Catherine, as well as at Acadia

Drive in Barbican, St. Andrew.

Temporary lane

markings are also being done, as the NWA seeks to reduce conflicting movements

and inappropriate use of the newly laid corridors.