{"id":3279,"date":"2019-12-18T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=3279"},"modified":"2019-12-18T22:06:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T22:06:03","slug":"traffic-restrictions-for-falmouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=3279","title":{"rendered":"Traffic restrictions for Falmouth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span><em>Shamir Brown <\/em><\/span><\/strong><em>\u2013 Correspondent<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In light of the\ntraffic challenges now facing the town of Falmouth, Minister of Local\nGovernment and Community Development, Desmond McKenzie, is recommending changes\nto current systems to address the problem.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking at a council meeting in Falmouth recently, the\nMinister remarked that Falmouth has undergone a transformation due to increased\ndevelopment and, which has caused increased traffic from both vehicles and\npedestrians in such a small space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He notes what has to be looked at seriously is the\nrestriction of vehicular traffic in certain sections of the town, whether for\nthe holidays, or on a more permanent basis. He further shared that the council\nis within its right to do that and believes that it is something that should be\nexplored in the quest to solve the traffic woes in the town of Falmouth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McKenzie related that currently, several towns are facing\nsimilar challenges, owing to persons moving into the town areas for work and\nother reasons, thereby contributing to growing traffic problems. \u201cI don\u2019t know\nhow much policing can help but what we need to start doing is redesigning towns\nand moving some activities outside of the town centres,\u201d he shared. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recent times, the town of Falmouth has seen its traffic\nsituation grow to challenging sizes, especially on Wednesdays during the Bend\nDown Flea Market. It\u2019s with this in mind that the Trelawny Municipal\nCorporation has adopted new strategies to deal with this during the festive\nseason. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Come December 17, as a result of the traffic problems,\ndrivers will have to adjust their routes as they try to traverse the town of\nFalmouth until January 5, 2020, according to Mayor Colin Gager.&nbsp; Speaking at the council meeting on Thursday,\nthe Mayor remarked that Wednesdays have become particularly chaotic and\ntherefore, having seen the challenges, the decision was taken to make some\nchanges to the road network to allow for a smoother flow of traffic in the\ntown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The changes will see most of the heavily used Market Street\nbeing set as a single lane thoroughfare coming into the town to better deal\nwith the challenges associated with the market. There will also be changes\nalong King Street and Georges Street to deal with traffic coming into the town\nand also flowing in the opposite direction. No traffic will be allowed on\nTharpe Street and parking will only be allowed on one side of Market Street for\nthe period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Minister of Local Government and Community Development,\nDesmond McKenzie, who was in attendance at the meeting, also revealed that he\nwas in agreement with the move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shamir Brown \u2013 Correspondent In light of the traffic challenges now facing the town of Falmouth, Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Desmond McKenzie, is recommending changes to current systems to address the problem. Speaking at a council meeting in Falmouth recently, the Minister remarked that Falmouth has undergone a transformation due to increased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[967,312,1692,30],"class_list":["post-3279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-desmond-mckenzie","tag-falmouth","tag-local-government","tag-western-jamaica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3281,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279\/revisions\/3281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}