Tunnel

So now St Kitts can boast a road-tunnel. The old ‘cut’ on the Sir KAS Highway – the SE Peninsular Road – was always potentially dangerous from falling rocks – especially after heavy rains. So they cut back the terrain, filled in the cut with the spoil, then took the rocks out again and built a tunnel – after having constructed a ‘slip-road’ to link the upper and lower levels of the highway. The whole project, it seems, has been going on longer than the whole original highway construction back in the 1980’s – no doubt at the cost of many millions. So my questions are, was it really necessary, and what happens to the very substantial ‘slip-road’? Or as was famously said in film and song back in the 1966 British Movie, ‘What’s it all about, Alfie?’

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