Portmore commuters warned of upcoming traffic changes due to road works
Published:Tuesday | January 20, 2026 | 7:30 PM
Traffic flow changes will soon be announced due to improvement works on the Naggo Head to Braeton Road project in Portmore, St Catherine, the National Works Agency (NWA) says.
"We are going to have to make some changes in traffic flow," said Stephen Shaw, manager, communications and customer Relations at the NWA. "We are going to be advising the persons in Portmore, in particular, at the appropriate time, so they can make whatever arrangements and modifications to their travel pattern and take into account those changes in respect of their travel time."
Shaw added: "We continue our work under the Capital Expenditure Programme. The road from Naggo Head to Braeton, St. Catherine – work is ongoing on that project. It’s a $2-billion work project. The activities are being ramped up and so persons can look out for those activities."
The project runs for approximately three kilometres from Naggo Head to the intersection of Braeton and Hellshire Road to the final turn-off into Greater Portmore.
It will be a four-lane roadway with raised median and traffic signals at the relevant locations, adequate sidewalks, drains and water lines, as well as ducts for fibre-optic cable as part of the National Broadband Initiative.
The Capital Expenditure Programme is an urban transportation improvement programme designed to support the Government’s short to medium-term economic growth goals and provide crucial infrastructure to foster future development or redevelopment.
The six projects that fall under the CAPEX programme include widening of Grange Lane, St Catherine; widening and dualisation of Braeton Road and part of Hellshire main road, St Catherine; widening of Arthur Wint Drive, St Andrew; widening of East Kings House Road and Lady Musgrave Road, St Andrew; and widening of Sandy Gully Bridge along Washington Boulevard (Patrick City-Ken Hill Drive), Kingston; and improvement of access to Portmore via Mandela Highway on to Municipal Boulevard, St Catherine.
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