{"id":345855,"date":"2021-06-11T06:05:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T20:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=345855"},"modified":"2021-06-11T06:05:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T20:05:10","slug":"traffic-light-project-breaks-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/traffic-light-project-breaks-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic light project breaks ground"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gov. Ralph DLG Torres, seventh from left, Lt. Gov. Arnold I. Palacios, Senate President Jude U. Hofschneider, House Speaker Edmund S. Villagomez, Department of Public Works Secretary James A. Ada, other members of the Legislature, and DPW staff break ground on a streetlight project across the Beach Road and Quartermaster Road intersection yesterday morning. (JOSHUA SANTOS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A $1.94-million project to install traffic lights at the accident-prone intersection of Beach Road and Quartermaster Road in Chalan Laulau broke ground yesterday, with the project expected to be finished in about seven months.<\/p>\n

The project\u2019s contractor, USA Fanter Corp. Ltd., received its notice to proceed on the project on June 1. The $1,945,638 project has a completion date of January 26, 2022, and is fully funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation\u2019s Federal Highway Administration.<\/p>\n

In his remarks, Palacios thanked the Department of Public Works for \u201cfinally getting this done\u201d and recalled how Gov. Ralph DLG Torres asked him around six or seven months ago what he could do to expedite some of these improvement projects. Palacios said the Beach Road and Quartermaster intersection project was \u201cone of the projects that I felt could be done very expeditiously.\u201d<\/p>\n

Senate President Jude U. Hofschneider (R-Tinian) spoke of the importance of making coordination between the Legislature and the Torres-Palacios administration as seamless as possible, and looks forward to what infrastructure project comes next.<\/p>\n

House Speaker Edmund S. Villagomez (Ind-Saipan) spoke of the project\u2019s role in improving the driving experience that Beach Road offers to many in the community and tourists alike.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can see that [the Beach and Quartermaster intersection] is a busy place for motorists and a hotspot for accidents. This is a\u2026much-needed project,\u201d said Villagomez.<\/p>\n

Next up will be a groundbreaking ceremony for an improvement project along Route 36, improving the span of road from Kingfisher to Bird Island in Talofofo.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Torres, he explained that the recent burst in infrastructure projects have actually been in the works for quite some time and have only come to fruition after undergoing lengthy processes.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of these projects are not just [the product of] a year\u2019s work. There\u2019s quite a long, lengthy process. \u2026Department of Public Works and other agencies have been working really hard, and now you\u2019re seeing all this hard work that\u2019s been happening throughout the years,\u201d said Torres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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