KINGSTON, Jamaica — The National Works Agency (NWA) says that on Sunday, December 2 it will be putting the new Chesterfield Drive extension road built to bypass Three Miles and a section of Spanish Town Road into service.

The new roadway will be officially opened to traffic at 4:00 pm, the NWC said.

The new road runs from the end of Chesterfield Drive, in the Seaview Gardens Community, to Marcus Garvey Drive in the vicinity of the Tinson Pen Aerodrome.

Manager, communication and customer services at the NWA, Stephen Shaw said that the two-lane, 1.5 kilometre roadway is designed primarily to take motorists from Six Miles towards downtown Kingston while motorists going to Half-Way-Tree may also choose to use it as an option to get on to East Avenue from Marcus Garvey Drive.

Shaw says that an extra right turning lane has been added at the Penwood Road/Chesterfield Drive intersection along Spanish Town Road to accommodate the anticipated increase in motorists that will be turning on to the new roadway.

He explained that two additional intersections, along the new route, have been signalised, one at Pacific Boulevard, in Seaview Gardens and the other at Marcus Garvey Drive to ensure safety and effective traffic management.

When travelling out of Kingston motorists will be able to easily access the new roadway from Marcus Garvey Drive via a slip road.

Work on a similar slip road, designed to take westbound motorists from Chesterfield Drive back on to Spanish Town Road, will be completed in the upcoming week.

Work on the Chesterfield Drive extension project began in September under a US$1 million contract with China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC).

The project involved the toad construction as well as drainage improvement works and the rehabilitation of a 700-metre section of Chesterfield Drive to include the installation of 1.5 metre-wide sidewalks.