The Min­istry of Works and Trans­port (MOWT) is cur­rent­ly up­grad­ing the in­ter­sec­tion of the Ma­coya Road and Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route. There have been sev­er­al ac­ci­dents at the lo­ca­tion in re­cent times. On Sun­day, Min­is­ter of Works and Trans­port, Ro­han Sinanan vis­it­ed the site with a tech­ni­cal team to as­sess the in­ter­sec­tion.  

Days lat­er, the MOWT team com­plet­ed the fol­low­ing work: 

♦Traf­fic Sig­nals Bulbs changed to LED for bet­ter il­lu­mi­na­tion 

 ♦Pave­ment Mark­ings Im­proved 

 ♦Ad­di­tion­al Sig­nage in­stalled 

 ♦Lou­vered Back­plates added to the sig­nals. 

There will be ad­di­tion­al work on the in­ter­sec­tion in the com­ing days. With a 25 per­cent in­crease in road traf­fic fa­tal­i­ties, en­gi­neers from the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port are now re­vis­it­ing dan­ger­ous road­ways across the coun­try to find ways of im­prov­ing safe­ty.