{"id":21714,"date":"2018-11-15T01:28:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T05:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=21714"},"modified":"2018-11-15T01:28:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T05:28:02","slug":"four-hundred-miles-of-road-in-need-of-fixing-public-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/four-hundred-miles-of-road-in-need-of-fixing-public-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Four hundred miles of road in need of fixing – Public Works"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Ministry of Public Works has reported to the Cabinet of Antigua and Barbuda that 400 miles of roads are in need of fixing.<\/p>

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According to the government, the rain has adversely affected the quality of the roadways; further, two major highways have been made worse by the downpours since they were being prepared for major repairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Residents have been expressing outrage at road conditions island-wide but especially where two UK funded road projects are underway.<\/p>

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The APUA is planting conduits for electricity<\/g> wires, and manholes for transformers, along Friars Hill Road, in order to ensure no loss of electricity by businesses and homes along the highway when hurricanes strike in the future. <\/p>

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The government is promising that “the inconvenience will end in late January when all the work is expected to be completed.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the minister of works,\u00a0 $25 million dollars of concrete roads have been constructed thus far, and that where concrete is necessary, (as in valleys and at low-lying places prone to flooding) the roadways will have this costly material applied.<\/p>

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