Dear Editor,
With respect to the Industry main road between Greater Georgetown and the East Coast which was recently thinly resurfaced with bitumen, though I am grateful for the slight improvement, I am peeved that it was not done to the full satisfaction of the several thousand local residents, taxpayers, pedestrians and drivers who use it at all hours of the day and night.
Their bone of contention is that this stretch of road which runs from the railway embankment to the south-west Cummings Lodge squatting area should have been wider and been provided with a pavement, because it serves many thousands of residents and others from the Industry Housing Scheme, Cummings Lodge Squatting area and Cummings Lodge proper. In addition, and most importantly, there is the growing number of businesses.
This particular piece of road is not only traversed by several hundred cars and minibuses, but also by larger lorries transporting goods to the shops which are mushrooming there.
Residents would have been happier if the planners had given consideration to building a wider, safer and more convenient road with a pavement on both sides to accommodate the hundreds of students from the Cummings Lodge Secondary School. One witnesses almost every day near accidents with students as minibuses and vehicles rush pass.
Already both edges of this newly resurfaced road which cost taxpayers millions of dollars, are breaking loose in several places, because there is no foundational support.
Yours faithfully,
(Name and address provided)
