Eastern Main Road

The Eastern Main Road (EMR) also called the Main Road, is notorious as a traffic-riddled thoroughfare, and one of the few roads that connects the capital city, Port of Spain (and regions further west) to Arima and other places in the eastern part of Trinidad, thus it forms part of the East-West Corridor. Up until 1942, it was the only connection from East to West and thus during the war, there was great impetus to build a road to improve communications which eventually became the Churchill Roosevelt Highway. On occasion in current times, on the Main Road, depending on the time of day, traffic flows with remarkable ease along the Main Road.