The North Coast Road re­opened to sin­gle ve­hic­u­lar lane traf­fic yes­ter­day af­ter a land­slide forced the clo­sure of the ma­jor road­way hours be­fore.

On Sat­ur­day night, af­ter heavy rains, a land­slip oc­curred block­ing off the road and iso­lat­ing vil­lagers and beach­go­ers from the rest of the coun­try.

The in­ci­dent took place ap­prox­i­mate­ly 1.5 kilo­me­tres be­fore the pop­u­lar Mara­cas look­out.

The road is vi­tal for reach­ing pop­u­lar beach­es along the coast and is no stranger to land­slips.

Ac­cord­ing to of­fi­cials at the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port, the in­ci­dent hap­pened just af­ter 7 pm.

It said crews from the min­istry were prompt­ly de­ployed to clear the de­bris and es­tab­lish in­ter­im con­nec­tiv­i­ty while on­go­ing as­sess­ments were be­ing con­duct­ed.

The cleanup ex­er­cise ex­tend­ed well in­to the ear­ly hours of the morn­ing.

In its most re­cent re­lease yes­ter­day, the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port in­formed the gen­er­al pub­lic that con­nec­tiv­i­ty had been re­stored on the North Coast Road, but on­ly for sin­gle-lane traf­fic.

The min­istry al­so ad­vised com­muters and res­i­dents to pro­ceed with cau­tion along the road­way, con­sid­er al­ter­na­tive routes, or avoid the area if pos­si­ble.

Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed the North Coast Road which was cor­doned off by of­fi­cials, how­ev­er, com­muters were still pass­ing through the area.

Of­fi­cials are ex­pect­ed to re­vis­it the site as they con­tin­ue to as­sess the hill­side from which the land­slip em­anat­ed.