Dear Editor,
I refer to that portion of the road that stretches from the Palmyra turn to Seawall turn, Berbice. It is obvious that many ministers of the government and other officials must have traversed this stretch of road because the construction has been going on for what seems like forever, but there has been no change to the way traffic is routed through the construction zone (which we will refer to as Palmyra Road), and no one seems to care. The contractor has been working on one half of the stretch and so traffic has to move on the other half which is barely wide enough to accommodate one vehicle. That would make the Palmyra Road a one-way.
There seems to be an attempt to control the flow of traffic on very rare occasions, and a pitiful one at that too. There are two men holding signs at both ends of the construc-tion stretch and they have no way of communicating with each other. The traffic mayhem cannot be worse anywhere in the country than when it rains in Palmyra. The men who are supposed to hold the signs are hiding from the rain and so the traffic flows from both sides and piles up in the middle somewhere. Well, no one wants to drive off the road where it is all mud, and so we sit in our vehicles and shout and scream.
Can the powers that be not have the civility to have proper control of traffic in construction zones? And, please, do not let me hear that drivers force their way through the stop signs because there are policemen right around the corner. Let us have some respect because it is not much to do. There should be proper control of the flow of traffic in construction zones.
Yours faithfully,
Charrandass Persaud
Attorney-at-Law
