Effective Monday, December 16, 2013 a one way system for vehicular traffic will be implemented in the town of Santa Cruz, St. Elizabeth. The National Works Agency (NWA) will be implementing the system in order to better regulate traffic flows through the town leading up to the Christmas and the new year. The one way system will be in operation between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Mondays to Saturdays, until January 6, 2014.
Resulting from the changes, the following will obtain. Main Street from the intersection of Institution Drive and Coke Drive will be accommodate motorists heading in a westerly direction (from Goshen). No right turn will therefore be allowed from Coke Drive onto Main Street. All vehicles heading from this direction into the town will only be allowed a left turning movement.
Motorists wishing to enter Santa Cruz or beyond, from the direction of Lacovia will have to make a left at the traffic signals at the intersection of Main Street and the Bypass. No right turning movement will be allowed onto Market Street from the Bypass. Motorists wishing to enter the business district from this direction will have to use Institution Drive, where a right turn will be allowed.
Motorists who wish to travel to the direction of Malvern are being advised to use Retirement Road or travel to the end of the Bypass, turn right at the Total Gas Station and then turn left on Centre Road.
