T&T government investing $750M for roads, bridges; Jack promises 'revolution'

Minister of Works and Transport Jack Warner on Monday promised a "revolution" soon in the repairs to roads and bridges and the construction of new ones.

He was speaking in Arima at the opening of the Mt. Pleasant Road Bridge.

"In the next week, you will see a revolution in this country. A revolution in construction, based on road construction, bridge construction, you name it," he said.

"We are going to spend a next week or so, we shall give out contracts amounting to a little more than half a billion dollars. Close to $750 million dollars and I tell you this morning that every single constituency shall benefit," Warner added.

Warner also said the delay in installing cable barriers along the Uriah Butler Highway to prevent vehicles from crossing the median is because the contract for the project has just been handed out.

Work on the project is scheduled to begin next week at the Claxton Bay overpass, which was the scene of a horrible crash on Saturday in which four people died when a south bound vehicle crossed the median and crashed into one heading north. Two others died in another highway accident.

Warner apologised today to the families of those who died in the weekend crashes.

"I want to extend my sympathies to those persons and families who are suffering as a result because we should have acted with more dispatch, more haste," he said.