Churchill Roosevelt Highway

The Churchill Roosevelt Highway (CRH) is named after former British PM Sir Winston Churchill and former US President Franklin Delanor Roosevelt who were instrumental in the construction of the road since it was due to their signing of the Bases Agreement that the US came to Trinidad, and the problem of road communications for the US bases led to the decision to build a military two lane paved road that became the CRH. The road was to run from the US base in Wallerfield, called Fort Read and the Morvant junction of the Eastern Main Road.

The 15 mile road (as it was then) was opened in 1942 and was exclusively for the use of the military with a few exceptions. Strict patrols were installed to find and deter violators. On October 4, 1949, the road was opened to all civilian traffic, and was by then a four lane highway. The highway was later extended from Morvant junction straight to Port of Spain.

Churchill Roosevelt Hwy becomes the Beetham Highway in the vicinity of Boundary Rd San Juan and runs up to South Quay in POS, where it becomes Wrightson Rd.

As highways go, currently the CRH is not much of a highway since it does not allow uninterrupted traffic flow from the inception point to the end, but the construction of the traffic Interchange at the junction of the Uriah Butler Highway has considerably eased the flow of traffic, though not significantly enough to make traversing the CRH as efficient as it was in its early days. The problem is somewhat exacerbated by a continuous influx of passenger vehicles and the lack of any kind of traffic alleviation strategies such as a car pool lane or strategic traffic diversions during peak hours.

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