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Today, a portion of North Front Street was closed to traffic: that's the area from Mapp Street to the corner of Bel China Bridge. According to the Council PR representative, the process won't take as long as Freetown Road. In fact work is expected to be concluded in a week's time:..

Kenny Morgan, PR - Belize City Council
"The continuation in the street improvement project we have sealed the portion of North Front Street from Mapp Street to the junction with the Bel-China Bridge. Half of the Bel-China Bridge remains open so that the north and south side traffic can access the opposite side. The portion of the bridge approach from North Front Street going from North to the South side will be closed temporarily."

"We have been in conversation with the contractors and they have expressed their desire that if the weather permits the work along that area should be done within a week at the most. That's what they are looking at. We are hoping that Mother Nature permits us to move as expeditiously as we can and immediately thereafter we'll be working on the other phase. We are getting ready now to link up two projects on North Front Street. If you notice the work here in front of the City Council is proceeding at a very nice pace. The contractors are getting ready now to work on the drainage component of that project. The servicing of the street is almost totally completed, so they are moving along quite nicely and we are anticipating that within the next month or so we should have both sides linking up somewhere in the area between Hydes Lane and Pickstock Street."

During construction work, only half of the BelChina Bridge will be accessible to traffic. So far the council has worked on 50 streets and plan to complete one hundred streets by the end of the year.