New culverts installed at eroded highway

By JAMES APA GUMUNO
Traffic returned to normal on the Highlands Highway after a section of the road in the Simbu province that was washed away on Monday night was repaired yesterday.
Covec Construction Company, now fixing the road from Kundiawa town to Miunde, the border of Western Highlands and Simbu provinces, installed two new culverts allowing motorists to travel on the road since late Wednesday afternoon.
The two culverts were put on top of the three existing old ones and motorists expressed grave concerned yesterday whether this would hold. Motorists feared that if a heavy downpour occured, the Teine and Waine creeks – two of the big river channels that pass through the culverts, would swell and wash away the road again.
Big trucks stranded for two days with goods bound for parts of Simbu, Western Highlands, Enga and Southern Highlands provinces were back on the road.
Trucks transporting goods such as tea, coffee and other fresh produce for export and sales in big centres like Lae, Madang and Port Moresby were transported down to coastal provinces for shipment.

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