WHO IS GOING TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT?
The commute on the North Coast Highway between Richmond Estates (Plantation) and Ocho Rios, St Ann, especially at peak hours is now beginning to burden people and leave many weary and frustrated.
‘Why is it taking so long at this spot?” This is the question being asked by motorists.
Sitting in traffic for the half-mile stretch between the Traffic lights at Richmond and the ones at Priory is now taking up to half an hour. The traffic is worst between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. But there is also traffic early afternoon between 1 and 2 p.m. on the same stretch, North Coast Times monitoring has found.
Police and the NWA say they have already adjusted the lights to ease the traffic on the main road (Highway). The roadway narrows just east of the intersection where ‘No Parking’ signs are ignored, making matters worse.
It has become the norm now for motorists, unwilling to wait in line, to undertake and slip down by the Infirmary road and then get back onto the main road at the lights.
Others overtake the line of traffic crossing the continuous white line and then, using the right-hand turn lane, they go straight causing danger for motorists. But they get ahead of those who obey the law.
Police are now occasionally at the spot but motorists, especially taxi and bus drivers signal and communicate when there are no police, and bedlam reigns at those times.
Watch these two videos. The longer one shows a PPV vehicle waiting at the back of the line while undertaking and overtaking is all made worse by parking just beyond the lights
The shorter video just shows illegal undertaking at speed.
Who is going to do something about all this waste of time?
We’ll show you at another time, the other terrible spot for waiting, at Drax Hall
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