St Maarten Traffic

I was reading the discussion section of a St Maarten group that I belong to and one of the topics was traffic.

There were several ideas suggestions and what not and I chimed in with my ½ cent. I mean you can imagine “Wow” traffic on St Maarten this is one hell of a topic.

There are soooo many issues contributing the congestion that it seems hard to tackle them all. I think most of the issues that were mentioned are all contributing factors to the overall problem. Some of the issues mentioned were:

• People pulling on and off the road
• Buses stopping for passengers
• The Bridge openings
• Cars making left turns
• The Airport has become an second traffic hub

The Airport traffic problem to me is actually the easiest to solve:

What they should have done is:

Put the passenger parking where the employee parking is currently. This would eliminate the need for the passengers to cross the street. No traffic light, no over pass. CHEAP….SOLVED.

Next:

Simpsonbay, well since we cannot pick up buildings and move them back, personally I think we are faced with several other issues. The cheapest and what seems to me to be a practical idea I had would be to re-route traffic with goal being to get traffic over the bridge as quickly as possible.

So my thoughts are as follows:

1 after the bridge becomes 1 way down to the end of the runway. By making this a 1 way it opens up 2 lanes and creates more room to pull in and out of the area which is loaded with businesses.

2. The first right turn at the end of the runway become a mandatory right turn, with that becoming 1 way until we get up right by the police station and then turning right. There would be no oncoming traffic so this would be flowing lane unless the bridge was up. Basically we would make the town of Simpsonbay the roundabout.

Thoughts?? I am interested in your feedback on this one….

Cheers

Jason J

www.StMaartenDivers.com