Dear Editor,
Last week Sunday I wrote about driving woes out of Bent Street near the jail. This past Sunday I saw worse. From the East Bank I drove Mandela (and accepted the difficulties) with a plan to visit my friend on Conciliation Ave in TUCVille. Nope I cannot make a right turn as I used to. So I continued North and except maybe by Lodge I cannot make a U structured turn. I thought I was incorrect so after I had continued up the East Coast I went back to see if I was wrong. Now I paid special attention. TUCVille residents cannot drive out to go to Transfiguration or to town from Conciliation Ave. North East Lapenitence (Transfiguration) residents and parishioners cannot go into TUCVille or to South without going North. I do not know the plans for the turnaround by the Police Station/Bridge but I can foresee difficulties!
Then I started to recall the social content of South Georgetown. It is traditionally made up of mortgage holders and self-help groups of ordinary workers. Recall the involvement of enabling agencies where individual union workers banded together on paid full time release to go to work under professionals sent by Ministries to build houses in these schemes. Some of us joined them at nights to give our self-help bit. Result, several other self-help housing schemes including Melanie, Vreed-en-Hoop etc. emerged. Meanwhile the TUC got help starting Critchlow and the Industrial Training Centre (opposite) from where some of those self-helpers were trained. Nowadays we seem to be punishing these groups in differing forms including it seems indiscriminate use of traffic control systems. I am not ascribing blame but wonder which traffic engineer would lock in traffic and deliberately create bottlenecks. Incidentally if you want to study the most disgusting bottleneck go to that stretch of public road between Craig and Diamond. Now they are handing out more house lots further in by Jimbo Bridge in CaneVille. More confusion!! Please let our traffic engineers listen and do their work. Sometimes ‘brainstorming’ is a good solution!!
Sincerely,
L A Camacho