The Hattieville - Boom Road, alternatively known as Burrell Boom Road or Route AR1-B, joins the Road 11 and Road 7 bypassing Settlement 37. It is approximately 12 miles (19 km) long.
In documents published by ECLAC in the 2000s, this route was previously identified as D200.
The road was constructed in the 1950s as a gravel road, creating a crucial link between the George Price Highway and Philip Goldson Highway.
The road from the Road 11 junction to Burrell Boom was already paved by 2000.[1]
Currently as of September 2025 a roundabout is under construction at the junction with the Philip Goldson Highway.[2]
This road has been called many different variants of Hattieville - Boom Road. I guess it never had an official name as in the Public Road Act of 2011 it is referred to as Hattieville/Burrell Boom/Northern Highway. But in the S.I. No. 90 of 2023 the name was confirmed as being Burrell Boom Road.[3][4]
Contract: No. 78/2000-01
Period: November 2000 - February 2003
This project was one of the rallying cries of the 1998 elections, where the UDP promised to construct this road if they won.[5]
Cisco Construction was awarded the $20.5 million contract to rehabilitate the Burrell Boom Road by paving the entire length and replacing the existing steel truss bridge with a new 100m concrete bridge over the Waterway 20. The project also included a by pass around Settlement 37 with a 250m concrete flood way.[6][7]
Salient Points of the Contract:
| # | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burrell Boom Bridge | BZ | Belize River | 2003-02 | - | 100 | - | concrete | paved | 8 | 876,622,007 |
| 2 | Burrell Boom Bridge | BZ | Belize River | - | - | 75 | - | metal | metal | 139 | 1,428,208,208 |