Commuters and local residents traveling through the Dunrobin Avenue/Lindsay Crescent intersection in St. Andrew are being urged to prioritize safety this week, after a weekend vehicle collision left the junction’s primary traffic signal system completely out of service. The National Works Agency (NWA), Jamaica’s public infrastructure oversight body, confirmed that the outage stems directly from Sunday’s crash, which inflicted irreversible damage on the traffic signal control unit and the underground connecting cables that power the system.
In the hours following the incident, NWA mobilized its specialized maintenance crews to the site to begin remediation work. As of Monday, crews have already finished the initial phase of cable repairs and are preparing to begin comprehensive functional testing of the newly installed control unit. The agency has shared a clear timeline for the project, noting that full restoration of the traffic signal system is on track to be finished by Tuesday afternoon, when the lights will officially be brought back online for regular operation.
While crews work to complete repairs, NWA is issuing a critical safety reminder to all motorists navigating the non-operational intersection. Under local road rules, when traffic signals are completely inoperative, no single direction of travel has automatic right of way over others. All drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians crossing the junction are required to approach slowly, yield to crossing traffic, and only proceed through the intersection once they have confirmed the path is completely clear of oncoming vehicles and other road users.