Residents of Tenth Street, Cummings Lodge, are fed up with the condition of the deplorable and impassable road and are calling on the relevant authorities to quickly fix it.
When Stabroek News visited the street on Friday, it was found to be littered with large potholes, several feet wide, covering its entire width. Along with the “lake-like” potholes, as some residents described them, other smaller holes decorated the roadway. While most of the road is asphalt, it merges with a mud-like thoroughfare that is uneven and had several faults throughout.
“What can I say about this road? Is not one part, not two parts, is the whole road that bad. From that end to the next end got holes, big holes,” John Forde, a distraught resident related to Stabroek News.
“You can’t even call them things potholes because of the size. A whole car could fit in one of them and when you gotto drive through is a whole other problem,” the man related, while pointing out that the road has been in such a condition for “as long as he can remember” and continues “to worsen as the days go by.”
“See, the whole asphalt part get bruk up and now parts of the road mix up with sand and mud and all sorts of material so when the rain fall and them vehicles drive through is more damage it getting but you can’t stop that. People living here and people gotto reach they house,” the man added.
“The road right before this one here was done not too long ago and this one they can’t come and do. When the rain fall is pools of water everywhere. You could send your children to swim in them how they so deep,” another resident, George (only name given) related to Stabroek News.
The man explained that every month something goes wrong with his car because of the holes he has to drive through in order to get to his house. “Is best you just get an off-road vehicle and ride through here cause every time you drive through with your decent looking vehicle it jamming up and scraping up on the road,” he added.
The road is in such a disastrous condition that drivers are forced to drive on a resident’s bridge in order to avoid a part of the road that the men dubbed as impassable. “You see what people does gotto do. You gotto drive on that man bridge because nobody don’t want to drive in that rubble and damage they tyres and what’s not,” he added.
In terms of trying to repair the road themselves, the two men explained that they often try to fill the holes with bricks and other material but they are easily destroyed. “The thing with bricks is that they does get break up fast and create that dust so when it dry and them vehicles drive through is another session with all the dust on your clothes and people breathing in,” George related.
