Dear Editor,
We are dismayed to note the persistence of the paid parking lot run by the Mayor and City Council, Georgetown, next door to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) on East Street.
This is a travesty, as all paid parking proposals that were brought under the last regime were effectively opposed by Guyanese and were discarded as a result.
This one has escaped attention from those that had opposed the others. It is particularly heinous at this time of COVID-19, where our health care professionals are putting their lives and their families’ lives at risk to help and treat those infected with COVID-19, and they have to pay a huge amount to park at their workplace.
This arrangement that the Mayor and City Council have, should be rescinded with immediate effect. The Mayor and City Council appropriated this lot without having invested anything. The barriers should immediately be removed as they are an offence to public sensibilities and a reminder of the misguided paid parking scheme.
If this parking lot is opened up, it will also ease the traffic situation on East Street, between Lamaha and Middle streets.
Yours faithfully,
Sarah Williams