Dear Editor,
I am not sure whether it is Operation Safeway or Operation Sureway. I am referring to the traffic campaign supposedly carried out by the Guyana Police Force in an effort to make the roads in Guyana safer for travel.
I had written previously about some aspects of the implementation of this exercise. Particularly, I wrote of two prominent citizens who continue to flout the law with apparent immunity from the powers to be. Joey Jagan and Mark Vieira continue to ride their high-powered motor cycles, in full view of traffic ranks, without wearing crash helmets. It is ironic that Mr and Mrs Levi met their demise apparently fleeing from pursuing police officers for not wearing crash helmets.
I would wish that those mini-buses plying the Georgetown – Grove route, and who may have been granted immunity against overloading, have special markings indicating that they are permitted to seat five passengers in the row of seats behind the driver and four passengers in the third row of seats. In this way I will be aware of those mini-buses that I should not board, thus being within the law and being spared personal insults and abuse when I dare to complain.
Will the traffic authorities ever take action to sort out the death-trap confusion that reigns at the Great Diamond Housing Scheme “Car Park?”
It is no secret that traffic ranks are compromising the integrity of any legislation put in place for the safety of the travelling public.
Yours faithfully,
Rudolph D Mahadeo