Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway
| Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway in Trinidad and Tobago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Operator: | Ministry of Works and Infrastructure | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Chaguanas ( 10 ° 31 ′ N , 61 ° 24 ′ W ) |
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| End of street: | Debe ( 10 ° 13 ′ N , 61 ° 27 ′ W ) |
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| Overall length: | 40 km | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Development condition: | 2 × 2 lanes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course of the road
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Map with all coordinates: The Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway is a Trinidadian trunk road. It runs in a north-south direction between Chaguanas and Debe.
course
The Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway begins in the middle of Chaguanas as an extension of the Uriah Butler Highway . At the point of transition, another important national traffic route crosses the street with the Southern Main Road. The highway leads south and crosses the border between the Borough of Chaguanas and the Couva-Tabaquite-Talparo region at Chase Village . At a distance of five to ten kilometers from the west coast of Trinidad, it then leads further south through agricultural areas. He passes the regional capital Couva , which is connected via Couva Main Road, as well as the industrialized Point Lisas with its deep-sea port, which is connected via Rivulet Road. At the level of Claxton Bay the highway re-enters the densely populated area and passes the border to the Princes Town region between Gasparillo and Point-A-Pierre . In Princes Town, Highway Marabella passes Manny Ramjohn Stadium , Brian Lara Stadium and the University of Trinidad and Tobago campus, then touches the administrative area of San Fernando for a distance of almost 500 meters and crosses the border at St. Madeleine to the Penal-Debe region , where it runs through rural areas to Debe, where it joins the SS Erin Road.
history
The road was built in the early 1970s as a two-lane country road from Chaguanas to San Fernando. It is named after Solomon Hochoy , the last British Governor of Trinidad and first Governor General of Trinidad and Tobago after the country gained independence in 1962.
In the late 1970s, the highway was expanded into a four-lane, freeway - like road . Between 2001 and 2003 a new route was built around San Fernando and the highway was extended south to Golconda.
An extension of the Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway along the southwest coast of Trinidad to Point Fortin is planned, approved and in part already under construction. In 2012, construction work came to a short-term standstill, as the Highway Re-route Movement citizens' initiative called for construction to be halted and the construction plans to be changed and, after the failure of talks with the then Minister of Works and Infrastructure, Jack Warner , filed a lawsuit with the High Court. Construction resumed while the lawsuit was pending and in 2013 another section opened up to Debe. In August 2014 the lawsuit against the building was dismissed by the appellate court.
Web links
- History on Google Maps
Individual evidence
- ↑ NIDCO project page. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 1, 2015 ; Retrieved July 9, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Press release from the Trinidadian government. Retrieved July 12, 2015 .
- ↑ Sunday Express of August 8, 2014, available online ( memento of the original of March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
