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VexXx Dogg wrote:Thought experiment:
Decouple govt operations from private businesses in the capital.
Make POS a Business centre, rather than public servant Mecca.
If they're soo hellbent on keeping ministries in one place - find a spot somewhere and build a Government campus for EVERY SINGLE MINISTRY IN POS - maybe in the east - BUT remove all lights between POS and the east first.
Maybe central? The idea is direct and easy highway access to keep traffic flowing even during congestion.
I'm thinking a massive "self contained" type thing with offices, datacenters, public interfaces, and concessions. Leverage Green or Solar carparks to help power the campus.
Dizzy28 wrote:VexXx Dogg wrote:Thought experiment:
Decouple govt operations from private businesses in the capital.
Make POS a Business centre, rather than public servant Mecca.
If they're soo hellbent on keeping ministries in one place - find a spot somewhere and build a Government campus for EVERY SINGLE MINISTRY IN POS - maybe in the east - BUT remove all lights between POS and the east first.
Maybe central? The idea is direct and easy highway access to keep traffic flowing even during congestion.
I'm thinking a massive "self contained" type thing with offices, datacenters, public interfaces, and concessions. Leverage Green or Solar carparks to help power the campus.
Tamana Intech Park - Its fully developed from an infrastructure standpoint and substantially vacant except for UTT and eteck.
This sounds like an excellent idea but what time frame you have in mind for an initiative like this may take.... I say nothing less than 5 years. That's normally the time frame of a government. We all know how bureaucratic the public service is the time taken for procurement and negotiations for such an arrangement would be no less than a two years. Then union intervention, then Doma would have their inputs on how this would negatively impact them. Don't get me wrong it's a great idea but the domino effect after such announcement would stall it. Wish it had short term measures that could bring some relief to the traffic situation as it is that may just be a pie in the sky dreamVexXx Dogg wrote:Thought experiment:
Decouple govt operations from private businesses in the capital.
Make POS a Business centre, rather than public servant Mecca.
If they're soo hellbent on keeping ministries in one place - find a spot somewhere and build a Government campus for EVERY SINGLE MINISTRY IN POS - maybe in the east - BUT remove all lights between POS and the east first.
Maybe central? The idea is direct and easy highway access to keep traffic flowing even during congestion.
I'm thinking a massive "self contained" type thing with offices, datacenters, public interfaces, and concessions. Leverage Green or Solar carparks to help power the campus.
redmanjp wrote:we doh even need to wait on a multi million or billion dollar interchange which takes years to ease the current traffic- in the interim all they have to do is just adjust d timing on d lights. overnight results. i shouldn't be getting the red light 3 out of 4 times man and i on d major road.
death365 wrote:actually you should ... lights are setup in that way, get red on the 1st one and going the set speed limit means you get red on all the others too.redmanjp wrote:we doh even need to wait on a multi million or billion dollar interchange which takes years to ease the current traffic- in the interim all they have to do is just adjust d timing on d lights. overnight results. i shouldn't be getting the red light 3 out of 4 times man and i on d major road.
hover11 wrote:Another issue is the removal of the lights. This always baffles me the Churchill Roosevelt highway and the sir Solomon Hochoy highway were both built differently no problem. One was built with traffic lights at every intersection and the other was built with foresight. Where the government that always crying that they just don't have the money even to fix the roads we drive on finding the money to remove the traffic lights and improve the infrastructure on the highway with more interchanges?
Phone Surgeon wrote:eliteauto wrote:It's also fickle, yesterday around this time there was traffic out of Maraval going onto the Savanna, today I'm sitting in the gallery watching the traffic into Maraval extend all the way back onto the Savanna close to Stollmeyers castle while exiting is clear.pugboy wrote:2-3:30 school traffic in POS is the worst
hear na
i does hadda pick up my nephew from Pres Chag on evenings
if i we dont leave PCC by 2:33 (2:35 is too late) then its a 35-45 mins traffic to reach back on the highway to go south direction
once we leave by 2:33.....its 10-15 mins to hit the highway
Musical Doc wrote:Looking at it generally, not just POS, when school is closed, there is barely any kind of major traffic. So wouldn't the fact that school being open is the major contributor, is there any adjustments to both school and work life that can help ease the traffic?
redmanjp wrote:Musical Doc wrote:Looking at it generally, not just POS, when school is closed, there is barely any kind of major traffic. So wouldn't the fact that school being open is the major contributor, is there any adjustments to both school and work life that can help ease the traffic?
in my case some of the school traffic is west bound on the EMR in arouca caused by a school having their entrance on the main road side instead of the side street so every parent dropping off dey child by stopping on the main road- that simple change to the side street can help. the 2 year school lockdown for covid was great for traffic while it lasted
Dizzy28 wrote:This sheit for brains has been parking in this spot every morning of this week on Independence Square and before the stipulated times indicated on the the no parking signs. That is one of the two turning lanes to go onto Wrightson Road just after Edward Street so you can imagine what he causes and its made worse if others follow him.
Traffic can't ease up when Trinis do not follow the road rules and its impossible to police all roads at all times.
I have much more stories on my morning commute where so much people breach all of the 6am-9am traffic restrictions in El Dorado/Tunapuna environs b/c they can.
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Dizzy28 wrote:This sheit for brains has been parking in this spot every morning of this week on Independence Square and before the stipulated times indicated on the the no parking signs. That is one of the two turning lanes to go onto Wrightson Road just after Edward Street so you can imagine what he causes and its made worse if others follow him.
Traffic can't ease up when Trinis do not follow the road rules and its impossible to police all roads at all times.
I have much more stories on my morning commute where so much people breach all of the 6am-9am traffic restrictions in El Dorado/Tunapuna environs b/c they can.
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pugboy wrote:boy i get a ticket in barataria for almost turning into one of those school zones
DMan7 wrote:pugboy wrote:boy i get a ticket in barataria for almost turning into one of those school zones
Is that by the big tree in Don Miguel Road? Got one there too.
pugboy wrote:no, by the savannahDMan7 wrote:pugboy wrote:boy i get a ticket in barataria for almost turning into one of those school zones
Is that by the big tree in Don Miguel Road? Got one there too.
DMan7 wrote:pugboy wrote:no, by the savannahDMan7 wrote:pugboy wrote:boy i get a ticket in barataria for almost turning into one of those school zones
Is that by the big tree in Don Miguel Road? Got one there too.
The savannah by the Hindu School?
pugboy wrote:by st. george’s
the east west sides are made one way
so they catch a lot of ppl as it is gridlockedDMan7 wrote:pugboy wrote:no, by the savannahDMan7 wrote:pugboy wrote:boy i get a ticket in barataria for almost turning into one of those school zones
Is that by the big tree in Don Miguel Road? Got one there too.
The savannah by the Hindu School?
pugboy wrote:by st. george’s
the east west sides are made one way
so they catch a lot of ppl as it is gridlockedDMan7 wrote:pugboy wrote:no, by the savannahDMan7 wrote:pugboy wrote:boy i get a ticket in barataria for almost turning into one of those school zones
Is that by the big tree in Don Miguel Road? Got one there too.
The savannah by the Hindu School?
hover11 wrote:Can't recall seeing any one way signs there is this recent?pugboy wrote:by st. george’s
the east west sides are made one way
so they catch a lot of ppl as it is gridlockedDMan7 wrote:pugboy wrote:no, by the savannahDMan7 wrote:pugboy wrote:boy i get a ticket in barataria for almost turning into one of those school zones
Is that by the big tree in Don Miguel Road? Got one there too.
The savannah by the Hindu School?
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