KINGSTON, Jamaica — Motorists using the Free Town main road in south-eastern Clarendon should prepare to yield to traffic signals at the Salt River Road intersection come tomorrow, Thursday, November 30 as the newly-installed lights are expected to be turned on at 10:00am.

Manager of Communication and Customer Services at the National Works Agency, Stephen Shaw explained that the intersection is being signalised to better manage increased traffic along the corridor due to the establishment of at least one major housing development in the area.

The work was carried out over a six-week period.

Shaw added that the Free Town project forms part of broader plan to signalise a number of busy intersections island-wide to improve traffic management systems. The agency is to spend some $44 million repairing traffic signals at the intersection of Penwood and Spanish Town roads in St Andrew, the Spanish Town link road in St Catherine, and along the Santa Cruz main road in St Elizabeth, while two new signals are to be installed at the Job Lane/Brunswick Avenue intersection in Spanish Town.

The traffic signals at the Free Town/Salt River Roads intersection cost $8.9 million dollars. The project was financed by the National Housing Trust.