Part of the Beetham High­way was closed to ve­hic­u­lar traf­fic ear­li­er to­day to fa­cil­i­tate the in­stal­la­tion of the long-await­ed walkover at Sea Lots.

The ex­er­cise which took place dur­ing the mid-morn­ing led to a mas­sive traf­fic grid­lock for mo­torists en­ter­ing and ex­it­ing the cap­i­tal.

Mo­torists were lat­er ad­vised by of­fi­cials of the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port that the por­tion of the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route from the Port-of-Spain Ab­ba­toir to the Mt Hope In­ter­sec­tion would be opened to light ve­hi­cles on­ly, un­til fur­ther no­tice.

Port-of-Spain South MP Mar­lene Mc­Don­ald turned the sod for the walkover in 2017, dur­ing which it was claimed that the 48-me­tres long walkover would be the longest in Trinidad.

Sea Lots res­i­dent, 28-year-old Haydee Paul, and her two daugh­ters Akasha, sev­en, and Shaki­ra, eight were killed af­ter a car ploughed in­to them as they walked along the west­bound lane of the Beetham High­way in 2013.