Visitors Get the Green Light

Crews of ten certified signal technicians from Control Specialist Company (CSC), of Florida, arrived Wednesday (10 November), to commence work by weekend on restoring Grand Cayman’s traffic signals. Initial target dateline is the 20 November lifting of travel restrictions and all repair work and optimizations should be completed by the end of December.

“The priority will be the two four-way intersections at Shedden Road/North Sound Road/Thomas Russell Avenue and Smith Road/Bobby Thompson Way/Huldah Avenue,” said Director of the National Roads Authority (NRA), Mr. Colford Scott, adding, that the three-way intersections would be tackled next.

Mr. Edward Howard, Deputy Managing Director of the NRA, said that a lot of planning had gone into CSC’s ability to commence work this weekend: “Within the first week after Ivan, we had a team from CSC here assessing the damage. Since then, they have been custom building traffic-light boxes to suit the needs of Cayman’s intersections,” explained Mr. Howard. “We have a 16-year working relationship with CSC so we can expect quality workmanship from them and this optimizing of our equipment should keep the lights trouble free for at least 20 more years.”

The Harbour Drive signals at Fort Street and Shedden Road are not part of this contract and will be decommissioned by the NRA. Harbour Drive will be made more pedestrian friendly with extra signage and pedestrian signals being put in place at a later date.