Uriah Butler Highway
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| Operator: | Ministry of Works and Infrastructure | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Champs Fleurs ( 10 ° 39 ′ N , 61 ° 26 ′ W ) |
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| End of street: |
Chaguanas ( 10 ° 31 ′ N , 61 ° 24 ′ W ) |
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| Overall length: | 15.7 km | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Development condition: | 2 × 3 lanes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course of the road
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Map with all coordinates: The Uriah Butler Highway (in writing often abbreviated as UBH ) is a Trinidadian trunk road. It runs in a north-south direction between Champs Fleurs in the East-West Corridor and the largest city of Trinidad, Chaguanas .
course
The Uriah Butler Highway begins in the small town of Champs Fleurs, located between San Juan and St. Joseph , in the middle of the East-West Corridor, the largest agglomeration with around 550,000 inhabitants and the most important business location in the country. The highway branches off from the Eastern Main Road, the most important west-east connection of Trinidad next to the parallel Churchill Roosevelt Highway , which the Uriah Butler Highway crosses after four kilometers on the way south at Valsayn . One kilometer further, the highway crosses the Caroni River , the second largest river in Trinidad, and then leads six kilometers along the Caroni Swamp through rural areas. At kilometer eleven, the road leads to the urban area of Chaguanas, to end five kilometers further south in the city center at the junction of the Southern Main Road and continue as the Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway .
history
Until the Second World War, the north-south traffic in Trinidad ran mainly on the Southern Main Road between Curepe and Point Fortin . The US Army, stationed in Trinidad during World War II, required additional transportation routes to move material from the naval base in Chaguaramas to the air force base in Wallerfield, east of Arima . The US Army built the Churchill Roosevelt Highway, the first highway in Trinidad, in the 1940s. After the war it was put into civilian use, and the government considered building a similar highway for the north-south axis. The Uriah Butler Highway was built in 1958, originally as the Princess Margaret Highway, named after Margaret, Countess of Snowdon . Initially, the north end of Churchill was the Roosevelt Highway, and there were only two lanes of traffic. In the mid-1980s, the road was expanded to a four-lane, structurally separated highway; it was renamed Uriah Butler Highway in 1988. In 2011, the highway was extended by two more to six lanes. The namesake is Uriah Butler , a labor leader in the first half of the 20th century, who played a role in the fight against colonialism on the way to Trinidad's independence.
Others
Like most national highways in the north and west of Trinidad, the Uriah Butler Highway is known for a high number of traffic accidents. In 2013 it was in third place on the highways in the statistics of fatal accidents with pedestrians with 21% of all deaths.
Individual evidence
- ↑ UrbanTransportTT.blogspot.de: Evolution of Trinidad's Highways. Retrieved May 14, 2016 .
- ↑ Michael Anthony: Historical Dictionary of Trinidad and Tobago . Scarecrow Press, London 1997, ISBN 0-8108-3173-2 , pp. 589 .
- ↑ Trinidad Newsday of August 14, 2014: Naming the highways of TT. Retrieved May 3, 2016 .
- ↑ News.gov.tt: New lane opens on Uriah Butler Highway, Mt Hope. Retrieved May 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Trinidad Guardian of September 12, 2013: Police figures show 20% drop in road deaths. Retrieved May 14, 2016 .