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Among Jamaica’s more impressive developments in public infrastructure in recent decades is the expansion of its network of highways and major roads.
There is, for instance, the tolled east-west segment, between Portmore, St Catherine, and May Pen, Clarendon, of Highway 2000, built and controlled, initially, by the French company, Bouygues Travaux Publics, which the Government is about to list on the Jamaica Stock Exchange. Another is the Chinese-owned North-South Highway, between Caymanas, St Catherine, and Mammee Bay, St Ann. Before these was the redevelopment of the 225-kilometre North Coast Highway, from Negril in the west, to Port Antonio in the east.
Additionally, in the last four years, the Government has completed, or is near to completing, the rehabilitation and expansion of several key thoroughfares in the Kingston Metropolitan Area, at a cost of around J$25 billion. Other significant road projects are about to start, or are at advanced stages of planning.
What we suck at, even though the Government periodically pledges its intention to get on with it, is urban renewal. The evidence is obvious, and in clear sight, in decayed communities across the island, but especially in the capital. In part, the development of new roads, and the expansion of existing ones, is a nod to this failure. For, instead of fixing old communities, the emphasis, over decades, has largely been on greenfield housing developments. These demand new infrastructure, including roads with which to connect them to critical services in towns and cities.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/c...le-urban-decay
There is, for instance, the tolled east-west segment, between Portmore, St Catherine, and May Pen, Clarendon, of Highway 2000, built and controlled, initially, by the French company, Bouygues Travaux Publics, which the Government is about to list on the Jamaica Stock Exchange. Another is the Chinese-owned North-South Highway, between Caymanas, St Catherine, and Mammee Bay, St Ann. Before these was the redevelopment of the 225-kilometre North Coast Highway, from Negril in the west, to Port Antonio in the east.
Additionally, in the last four years, the Government has completed, or is near to completing, the rehabilitation and expansion of several key thoroughfares in the Kingston Metropolitan Area, at a cost of around J$25 billion. Other significant road projects are about to start, or are at advanced stages of planning.
What we suck at, even though the Government periodically pledges its intention to get on with it, is urban renewal. The evidence is obvious, and in clear sight, in decayed communities across the island, but especially in the capital. In part, the development of new roads, and the expansion of existing ones, is a nod to this failure. For, instead of fixing old communities, the emphasis, over decades, has largely been on greenfield housing developments. These demand new infrastructure, including roads with which to connect them to critical services in towns and cities.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/c...le-urban-decay
Paul Marin -19 is one thing, 20 is a whole other matter. It gets even worse if they win the UCL. *groan*. 
05/18/2011.MU fans naah cough, but all a unuh a vomit?-Lazie 1/11/2015