underway, says Flatts Development Committee spokesman W.A. (Toppy) Cowen.

The Bermuda Electric Light Company, in partnership with the committee, began work on enhancing the area around its village sub station yesterday.

Fencing there is being removed and a concrete wall is being faced with Bermuda stone.

Room is also being made for a park and dining area for the Halfway House Restaurant.

Elsewhere the Flatts Gift Shop building has been painted and Four Star Pizza has been spruced up, said Mr. Cowen.

On October 17, the area will host the Flatts Village Festival and Mr. Cowen said the committee was visualising some 2,000 people attending the event.

Works and Engineering Minister C.V. (Jim) Woolridge will close the road going through Flatts Village on this day.

Mr. Cowen noted that the results of a recent volunteer-conducted road traffic survey in Flatts has been forwarded to the Works Ministry also.

The results show that the greatest increases in the morning peak traffic period over the last 17 years was on the North Shore Road route into Flatts (77 percent) and North Shore Road out of Flatts (65 percent).

The volunteers also found that nearly 15,000 vehicles -- the equivalent of one-third of the total vehicles in Bermuda -- pass through the village between 7.30 a.m. and 6 p.m.

THAT'S A WRAP -- Precision Construction employee Alfred Butterfield (left) and Pembroke Steel employee Alfred Ceasar remove the rusty, old wire fencing from in front of the Bermuda Electric Light Company sub station in Flatts Village.

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