It’s also creating massive traffic jams, right back in to the east end of the island, according to motorists. <\/P><\/p>\n
\nThe Guardian’s telephone lines were clogged with complaints from motorists about blocked-off roads and movie trailers blocking Lovers Lane and Church Street, which leads to the Paradise Island Bridge. <\/P><\/p>\n
“This is horrendous!” one caller said. <\/P><\/p>\n
“It was the middle of the afternoon and it was really slow coming up. I mean traffic was a lot slower than usual,” said another caller. <\/P><\/p>\n
Large movie trailers and other production equipment were spread across the grass of the Eastern Parade, Tuesday afternoon. <\/P><\/p>\n
Along Church Street were fluorescent red cones, and the one-way dual-passageway was made into a one-lane street as a large, dark trailer took up most of the right-hand lane. In front of it was another. <\/P><\/p>\n
Lovers Lane was blocked off, as a newly erected “No Right Turn” sign directed motorists from the corner of Shirley Street. <\/P><\/p>\n
The New Line Cinema production company was permitted to close roads, the film’s publicist Cid Swank said on Tuesday, and pointed out that those roads are nearly always congested. <\/P><\/p>\n
“It seems that there’s always a lot of congestion in that area. We are filming there. We filmed there yesterday, today and we’ll be there tomorrow,” she said. <\/P><\/p>\n
About the closing of Lovers Lane, Ms Swank pointed out that “it is a small road that is hardly used” and that it was blocked off with the permission of the government. <\/P><\/p>\n
Traffic Division head acting superintendent Willard Cunningham confirmed that the production crew was permitted to close Lovers Lane to motorists. <\/P><\/p>\n
“I don’t know of any traffic mishaps on Shirley Street or if that road that was blocked off at all. I only know that a movie shooting was done… I know that this division grants road closures on behalf of the police commissioner (Paul Farquharson) and that it was approved.” <\/P><\/p>\n
Mr. Cunningham said that between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 9 a.m. or shortly after, traffic in that area is usually at its peak. On many occasions, he said officers are sent to direct traffic. <\/P><\/p>\n
Angela Archer, of the Bahamas Film Commission, said that as far as she knows there was no “back-up” on the roads. <\/P><\/p>\n
“I got a few calls too, from people calling me, telling me that the roads were backed-up, but when I passed there I didn’t experience or saw any backups. I don’t know whether there were any traffic mishaps or anything, but from my perspective there was no cause for traffic,” said Ms Archer. <\/P><\/p>\n
Filming is expected to continue through mid-December, occupying Nassau locations and the Atlantis Paradise Island Resort on Paradise Island. <\/P><\/p>\n
The film, which stars Pierce Brosnan (“Thomas Crown Affair,” “Die Another Day”) and Salma Hayek (“Once Upon a Time in Mexico,” “Desperado”), will feature about 1,400 Bahamian extras. <\/P>
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