Lothan Cousins, the People’s National Party member of parliament (MP) for Clarendon South Western, is threatening to boycott tomorrow’s opening ceremony for the May Pen to Williamsfield leg of Highway 2000. According to Cousins, his planned.
iStock photo shows the Portmore leg of Highway 2000.
A surge in the number of travellers on the East-West leg of Highway 2000 for December has resulted in an improved fourth quarter for TransJamaican Highway (TJH).
Earlier measures implemented to stem the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) resulted in a drop in traffic by 34.5 per cent over one year in the second quarter of 2020.
However, Thierry Parizot, Managing Director of TransJamaican Highway, reported that a traffic peak was reached during the Christmas holidays with 90,000 transactions on December 24, 2020.
For the full year 2020, a total of 20.6 million toll transactions were recorded (56,268 per day), down 14.8 per cent compared to 2019 (24.2 million).