Final phase of Fish Bay Road Rehabilitation Project underway
The final phase of works on the Fish Bay Road Rehabilitation Project is underway as the government moves to mitigate flooding in the area.
Works Minister Kye Rymer said this is the final of eight road projects to be completed by the Recovery and Development Agency (RDA) on behalf of the government with financing from the Caribbean Development Bank Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Loan facility.
“The works included the removal and replacement of the existing culvert with a new and larger one; complete drainage works on both sides of the road; erection of a retaining wall structure and now this final phase, the full road rehabilitation. The Fish Bay Road Rehabilitation Project is expected to mitigate against flooding in the area, while encompassing the aesthetics of a proper road network,” Rymer said.
Meanwhile, Project Manager with the RDA Sergio Dantas said the full road rehabilitation works began on the week of May 16.
“Beginning this week, excavation works for the first 130 meters of the project will start at the Sol entrance easterly. The project is expected to rehabilitate a total of 480 meters of road,” Dantas noted.
Traffic disruptions are expected during this final phase of works and motorists are advised to approach the area with extreme caution and adhere to all traffic signs.
The project is now scheduled to be completed in the third quarter of 2022. Today, works will begin on base construction and surface preparation. The road will be closed from May 20 to 22 as steel work and concrete pouring take place.
The demolition phase of the project occurred from May 16 to 17 on the west bound lane just after Sol entrance to just before Skelton Bay Lot’s entrance (Drake’s Entrance).
Traffic heading into town will be rerouted through Skelton Bay Lot and will exit by Sol on days of road closures.
The government of the Virgin Islands said it continues to thank the public for its cooperation and patience as extensive road repairs and infrastructural work continue throughout the territory.
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That work in fish bay is looking shoddy…square corners…too small side walks…uneven curb walls…culverts too small
Culverts are too small? Maybe you should submit your calculations to the designer or to RDA…
It will all come together well. Individually, you can’t see it but the outcome will tie each portion together perfectly.
Is this Mr Di@n @rabbe or Mr. $kelton speaking?
Split into too many small contracts I suspect. Everything ends up looking like amateur hour and mis matche. Like a bunch of not particularly qualified friends of the elite doing work unsupervised and commonly paid out before work is inspected or completed. We want change.
Only one contractor is working on this project. No splitting at all. They broke up the works by sections. First they replaced the Culvert, then the drainage and now its the road surface.
Look at the new road in st.thomas and look at ours NIGHT AND DAY
Funny how the company that caused this entire flooding mess in the first place belongs to a former Minister who gets the contract to pour all the concrete. Benefits his businesses on both sides of the road and he made the whole mess to start with! Now the costs are all on the people’s dime to fix and benefits him almost entirely! How sweet we are to our former elected officials.
Gets to quarry without a worry, infill land on the other side, develop freely and unencumbered by regulations or red tape that we the common folk could never do.
If there ever was an example of why we are so sick of our elected elite, this is exactly the picture one could paint, and show as ‘Exhibit One’ in court!!
Oh, and that same owner is head of the RDA. 😉
Food for thought when all is complete and you drive through beautiful Fish Bay.
On top of that, the General Contractor for the entire project (another prominent East End elite family that is also consistently a huge beneficiary of the people’s purse) has his sister organizing protests outside Government House and talking all over the radio telling all that will listen that the UK is taking us all back into slavery and the evil colonial power had this all planned like this was all the making of the British!
While these greedy elites play the race card day in and day out and give nothing back to their country, all while blaming the UK for our current predicament is just simply to baffle the common person and preserve their pots of ill-gotten gold on the backs of the BVI people!
Fish Bay road should be a reminder every day of how we are where we are right now!
It is ONE contract… it was not split into small contracts..