Churchill Roosevelt Highway
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| Operator: | Ministry of Works and Infrastructure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Start of the street: |
Barataria ( 10 ° 39 ′ N , 61 ° 28 ′ W ) |
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Wallerfield ( 10 ° 38 ′ N , 61 ° 13 ′ W ) |
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| Overall length: | 29.8 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Development condition: | 2 × 3 lanes, partly 2 × 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course of the road
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Map with all coordinates: The Churchill Roosevelt Highway (in writing often abbreviated as CRH , often also spelled with a hyphen "Churchill-Roosevelt Highway") is a Trinidadian trunk road. It runs in the north of the country in a west-east direction between Barataria and Arima , along the east-west corridor .
course
The Churchill Roosevelt Highway begins immediately southwest of Barataria as an extension of the Beetham Highway that comes from Port of Spain . At the starting point, Lady Young Road , the central access road for the northern Port of Spain, also joins the highway. This leads six-lane, partly eight-lane in a west-east direction along the entire east-west corridor, the largest agglomeration with approx. 550,000 inhabitants and the most important business location in the country. The highway first circled San Juan in the south and shortly before Valsayn crosses the Uriah Butler Highway , which runs in north-south direction ; the two highways form the largest intersection in the country at this point. The "CRH UBH Interchange", built in 2009, is so complex by Trinidadian standards that the Ministry of Works and Infrastructure felt compelled to publish an instructional video for drivers. On the way east, the Churchill Roosevelt Highway passes Valsayn and Curepe for the next 18 kilometers , where it crosses the north-south axis Southern Main Road , St. Augustine with the UWI campus, Tunapuna , Macoya , Tacarigua , Trincity and D'Abadie before reaching Arima. It forms roughly the southern border of the East-West Corridor. The highway then leads south around Arima, touching the urban area in the southeast of the city, and continues for almost ten kilometers in a north-easterly direction to Wallerfield , where it ends and via the Antigua Road to the second important east-west axis of Trinidad, the Eastern Main Road . An expansion to Manzanilla on the east coast of Trinidad is planned, but is blocked by unresolved environmental protection issues.
history
The Churchill Roosevelt Highway was built by the US military. As part of the destroyer-for-base agreement between the United States and Great Britain, the US military was stationed on the then British island of Trinidad during World War II . The Americans had a military base in Wallerfield east of Arima and a naval base in Chaguaramas northwest of Port of Spain; the Churchill Roosevelt Highway emerged (initially without a name) out of the need to transport material and people between the two bases. Construction lasted from December 1941 to March 1942; at first the highway was not paved. It was named after Winston Churchill and Theodore Roosevelt . When the construction work was completed, the highway had two lanes, one in each direction, and no structural separation between them. Use was reserved exclusively for the US military; After the US had left, the highway was handed over to the colonial administration for civilian use in October 1949.
Others
The novel A Brighter Sun by the Trinidadian writer Samuel Selvon thematizes the construction of the highway and allegorizes the progress of the work as a parallel to the development of the main character who was temporarily involved in the construction; one of the working title of the novel and the title of a radio play version was Highway in the Sun .
Individual evidence
- ↑ YouTube.com: CRH UBH Interchange Navigation Simulation. Retrieved June 25, 2017 .
- ↑ NIDCO.co.tt: Churchill Roosevelt Highway Extension to Manzanilla. Retrieved June 25, 2017 .
- ↑ Azard Ali: Ffos granted injunction highway again . In: Trinidad Newsday . February 10, 2018.
- ^ HighwaysofTrinidad.Wordpress.com: The Churchill-Roosevelt Highway. Retrieved June 25, 2017 .
- ↑ Trinidad Newsday of August 14, 2014: Naming the highways of TT. Retrieved June 25, 2017 .
- ↑ TVTropes.org: Literature / A Brighter Sun. Retrieved June 25, 2017 .