Dear Editor,
I write this letter after driving from my office through Regent Street. The one policeman at the corner of Regent and King streets was doing a good job, trying to control the flow of traffic, but the congestion and confusion in this business district of Georgetown persists.
We have pleaded for years with central government to pay some heed to a plan which cabinet accepted to relieve the congestion in central Georgetown.
The unbelievable refusal or its stubbornness to deal with the fundamental issues related to our capital is most amazing. The government through its ministry and traffic department seem quite content, if not happy to overnight create one way streets of course, without erecting proper signs and notices, which is a bandage on a festering sore.
What allows this march of folly with regard to the capital remains a mystery. I suppose we await some tragedy as a result of traffic rage resulting in injury to some member of the ruling elite, before heed is taken or good sense and reason is allowed to prevail.
One simple example – as part of the plan for Georgetown it was proposed that every developer of these many-storied buildings in the business district should be required to provide either on a ground floor or elsewhere, provision for the parking of its customers, and staff.
The (wisdom) of our government determined that such a provision would be a disincentive to development. I leave it to every patriot to judge – I still hope that at some point in time during the incumbency of the new President, that wisdom would prevail.
Yours faithfully,
Hamilton Green, J.P.
