Jamaica rolls out the toll

Friday, September 25, 2003

KINGSTON, Jamaica: Jamaica's first toll road, along the Old Harbour Bypass from Bushy Park in St. Catherine to Sandy Bay in Clarendon, was officially opened to motorists yesterday. 

For the first time, motorists will now have to pay a toll at the toll plaza, which is located at the Vineyards, near the Bushy Park interchange, which covers the use of the first 13 kilometres of Highway 2000, JIS News has reported.

The classification used will be $50 for most cars and motor bikes, and for vehicles less than 2 metres high (small SUVs); $60 for large SUVs and small trucks, that is vehicles more than 2 metres high and less than 5.5 metres long; and $120 for trucks, buses and tanker vehicles more than 2 metres high and more than 5.5 metres long.

Only emergency vehicles such as paramedic ambulances, the Constabulary highway patrol and fire trucks will be exempted. 
Highway 2000, which is planned to eventually connect Kingston to Montego Bay and Ocho Rios, was initiated in 1999 by the Government of Jamaica as the main plank of a series of government initiatives titled 'Millennium Projects.'

The multi-lane motorway will connect Kingston in the south-east of Jamaica with the tourism centres of Montego Bay in the north-west and Ocho Rios on the north-central coast, covering 230 kilometres. 

The highway is being constructed in two main phases.

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