This sign was used to warn motorists of the deadly road breakaway that was on the Borobridge main road. - photos by Ian Allen/Staff Photographer

We are reporting another victory for the people! This time the jubilee is being experienced by motorists who use the Borobridge main road in St. Ann.

Drivers and passengers who use this thoroughfare, which runs from Clarendon into St. Ann, are safe again after the dangerous breakaway was fixed by the National Works Agency (NWA).The dodgy breakaway was high-lighted in this feature on January 23, and repairs were completed two months later. Now, the residents are jumping for joy. "Praise the Lord! It is completed. A retaining wall is built. Thanks so much for the effort you and your colleagues have put into it," read an email to The Gleaner from the concerned resident who alerted the news team to the situation in the Garden Parish.

"I appreciate this very much, and I am sure the persons travelling along the Spaldings to Cave Valley route are grateful too," she added.

Residents said that the break-away occurred in the aftermath of Hurricane Ivan in 2004. During the more than two years the breakaway was allowed to impose itself on the motorists, it developed quite a bit of notoriety. Residents told several sad tales of near fatal accidents involving drivers who fell prey to the notorious breakaway at Borobridge.

In January, Denroy Gayle, who has been living in the area for 20 years, told our news team that the breakaway was a clear and present danger. "Is like an accident zone ... one driver can just a mind him business and a come up and the other just a try swing from the breakaway on him way down and slam into him," said Gayle.

When the NWA was contacted earlier this year, its senior communications manager, Colin Morrison, said he would contact the executive agency's parish manager for St. Ann and provide our news team with an update. That update was not received. Errol Hunter, acting parish manager, told our news team that they were responsible for the repairs. "We were (responsible for the repairs). The NWA, we did it!" he said proudly.

Mr. Hunter explained that repairs to retaining walls were done on a priority basis. "We group them and based on funding we do the most dangerous ones first," he explained.

FINAL COMMENT

Now that they have come through, a 'big-up' must be sent to the NWA, especially to the team members in Clarendon. Take a bow!

Problem solved!: The retaining wall built by the National Works Agency (NWA) along the Borobridge main road in St. Ann. - Contributed

In January of this year, this truck driver was caught steering away from the breakaway that was at Borobridge in St. Ann. At the time, residents revealed that the spot became an active accident zone since the breakaway occurred in 2004.