Philipsburg: --- Head of new projects Kurt Ruan and Police Spokesman Johan Janchi Leonard said traffic towards the Midas roundabout will be rerouted as Saturday. Ruan said some changes had to be made to better accommodate the traffic situation in that area. Ruan said the situation these past weeks has been somewhat complicated for heavy equipment operators as well as other road users. Ruan said traffic coming; the direction of KFC on Welfare Road going toward AJC Browers Road would have to make a right turn to go over the hill while traffic going towards Union Road would proceed around the round about and take the lane towards Union road.
Traffic he said coming from Welfare Road as well as traffic coming down the Cole Bay Hill going towards Marigot would be using the same direction. This new measures is adverse compared to what was being used over recent weeks. Ruan said the construction of the Midas Roundabout is done in three phases, phase one the circle which consisted of the re-routing of the traffic and the construction of a part of the round about which is where the Midas building was located was done without hindrances. Ruan said the workers are presently working on the second phase while the third phase would be the completion of the round about.
Ruan said they notice traffic going down Orange Grove road comes to a standstill on Wellington Road. Ruan said reason for this is because part of that road still had two way traffic and as of Saturday that too would change. Wellington Road will have two lanes going into the same direction so that traffic would flow better.
Head of Traffic Hildo Martina further asked road users to pay close attention to the new sign boards to avoid congestions.
Traffic Officers as well as the contractors were seen on the locations on Thursday where the necessary planning took place.