Dear Editor,
When the Georgetown-Rosignol highway was built, there were no big trucks like those we have today.
Some have twelve tyres back and front.
These are the big trucks that damage the reflectors on the road and damage the yellow lines to delineate the driving lanes. In certain parts, the government should assign special workmen to paint the yellow lines that separate the two lanes.
Drivers pay licences for their vehicles and they should be well protected by law if there is an accident. How could the road be widened? The government ran the water pipes under the walking lane. They said it would last for twenty years, but look at the number of vehicles on the road today. Now look what they did – they put lights on the road, right next to the walking lane.
If this road were to be widened, what would happen to the pipes under the road and the lights. This is waste of taxpayers‘ money unless the government builds a highway on the old railway embankment line, where there is solid foundation, from West Coast Berbice to Mahaica.
We have sand and stone. We don’t have to import these items. Plus, the only thing is the many culverts that have to be built that will cost money.
Yours faithfully,
Rudolph Singh
