WESTERN BUREAU – A section of the Bogue main road in Montego Bay will, as of Monday, be reduced to single-lane traffic in order to accommodate the construction of storm drains in that area.

The drains are to be built over the next six weeks, and in accordance with contract stipulations for Gore Development Limited’s “Bogue Village” housing project of which they form a part.

“As a condition for the approval of the housing plan by the St James Parish Council, they (Gore Development) were supposed to put in or expand the existing drains that are on our main road. That is what they are now actually doing,” said Stephen Shaw, regional communications manager for the National Works Agency.

According to Shaw, vehicular traffic from Montego Bay to Reading will be re-routed through the Bogue Village. They will, he said, make a left turn from the Temple Gallery Road, a right turn on to Bogue Boulevard that runs through Bogue Village out on to the Ramble Hill Road and then back on to the main road going towards Reading. Only heavy units will be exempt from the new arrangement.

“One exception to the diversion will be the heavy units such as trucks and trailers. Those will use the existing road in conjunction with flag persons who will be giving the appropriate signals,” Shaw noted. All vehicles travelling from Reading to Montego Bay will use the existing road.

Gore Development’s director, Chris Gore, has in the interim, given his assurance that the storm drains would be completed within the specified time – barring inclement weather conditions.

“The culverts will be upgraded within the specified six-week period provided the (weather) co-operates…” he said.

The multi-billion dollar Bogue Village project began in December of 2002 and is to see the construction of 1,623 houses, amounting to the creation of a village on the south-westerly outskirts of the resort city by 2006. The development is being undertaken on 250 acres of land.