Soesdyke-Linden Highway
The Soesdyke-Linden Highway is a 45-mile long 2-lane highway that runs between Soesdyke and Linden in Guyana.[1][2] The East Bank Public Road connects Soesdyke with Georgetown.
Construction and Rehabilitation
The Soesdyke-Linden highway was constructed between 1966 and 1968 by B.B. Mc. Cormick & Sons. It cost approximately US$17 million to build. The highway was officially opened in 1969.[1] The Soesdyke-Linden Highway was constructed as one phase of a highway connecting Georgetown with Lethem. A feasibility study for such a highway was done by a US consulting firm, Metcalf and Eddy, in 1961.[citation needed]
The highway was rehabilitated in 1997-1999 with funding from the Caribbean Development Bank.[3][4] The repair works were carried out by a Trinidadian company called Seereeram Brothers Ltd at a cost of US$6,575,000.[4] The repair works included: overlaying the stretch between Soesdyke and Kuru Kuru with asphaltic concrete and sealing the rest of the road with a thin coat of asphalt and fine aggregate. The super structures of the bridges, which were of greenheart, were reconstructed with reinforced concrete to a higher standard of live load.[citation needed]
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