The Tribune

By KEILE CAMPBELL

Tribune Staff Reporter

kcampbell@tribunemedia.net

BAHAMAS Power & Light (BPL) said disruptive works on the Eastern Road were completed over the weekend.

Drivers had to take alternative routes. The roadworks involved laying underground lines. Some residents complained about the minimal signs alerting them to detours.

BPL’s senior manager of corporate communications, Arnette Ingraham, said work had been underway on weekends for the last five weeks.

“This exercise allowed us to improve the reliability for our customers in the eastern area of New Providence, who experienced bouts of supply interruption a few months ago,” she said.

“New underground lines were laid to address several faults previously identified and to provide redundancy (back-up) in case of future faults impacting service in that area.”

She said BPL understands the need to complete repaving work and is working with partners to expedite this so that normal traffic flow can resume.