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Contact: Dana Augustin   

Thursday, May 24, 2001 - The Ministry of Communications, Works, Transport and Public Utilities has gone one step further in its efforts to improve the island’s road network. A two-day Origin/Destination Survey targeting motorists along the Castries to Gros Islet Highway and the Castries to Cul de Sac route has been carried out. 

The first survey was conducted last week along the Cul de Sac Route and on Thursday the second survey was done along the Allan Bousquet Highway and the Choc Bay Junction.  The survey is part of a feasibility study for a Castries bypass to address the problem of traffic congestion to and from the capital city, Castries. 

Steve OliverAccording to Traffic Engineer Steve Oliver of DIWI, the international firm supervising the study, the questions that motorists were asked were really to determine the origin of travel, destination and purpose of motorists’ journey – whether it is for business, school or otherwise.

“From the information we will be able to find out who are the people actually travelling to and from Castries and beyond Castries and from that information we can then derive alternative routes to try and get the congestion away from the city centre,” says Oliver.

Oliver and his team will now focus their attention on analysing the data collected during the survey.

 

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