Residents of Section ‘K’ Campbellville are pleading with the authorities to fix their deplorable roads which they say have been neglected for a very long time.
When Stabroek News visited the community yesterday, several roads were littered with large potholes that were impassable to some vehicles.
Traveling through the tiny roads drivers are forced into the corner in hopes of avoiding damage to their vehicles.
“I’ve been living here for a very long time, almost all my life and I can’t remember the last time we had a proper road. It’s been like this for a very long time and keeps getting worse,” John Forde, a resident, related to Stabroek News yesterday. The man said that even though there isn’t a “heavy traffic flow” through the area, the thoroughfare continues to deteriorate by the day.
“I try my best to avoid this road here but sometimes you can’t cause you gotto pick someone up from the street and it does be real stress. Watch the road and see for yourself. You can’t even call it a road because it’s more bricks than asphalt,” a taxi driver who frequents the area said, while explaining that there is a part of the road that is impassable and in order to get by he would have to drive onto someone’s driveway or off the road.
“Even when you drive off the road half or more of your car still dropping in the big holes because of how small the road is so sometimes it doesn’t make any sense at all,” he said.
Other residents chimed in and related that they were “fed up” with being forced to endure the condition of the road without any intervention from the authorities. “It’s unfair. Other roads have been repaired around other areas close to here yet no one even comes to do small work. It’s just left here to get worse and I don’t even know how worse it can get from this,” one of the residents said.
“It’s not like they are big and long roads. They are small streets that aren’t even going to take that much of money or effort to repair,” the man added.
