Dear Editor,
There is, very reasonably, concentration on improving roads (highways) that would facilitate the easier movement of vehicular traffic, albeit without appropriate traffic signals (motor and/or pedestrian).
But what is most disconcerting is the total indifference, indeed neglect, of critical parking arrangements, by the relevant legal decision-makers. There is a patent lack of initiative by the Traffic Department, as well as the Ministry of Public Works, to conduct a survey that would lead to the construction of geographically suitable parking accommodation.
Perhaps the most urgent, but unnoticeable, situation to be addressed is that surrounding the Georgetown Public Hospital, and more specifically the East Street disarrangement. For it would appear that the related decision-makers have given little or no attention to the possibility of an emergency arising that would affect the many inactive patients and their attending health care staff that would have to be urgently transitioned.
One wonders about the prevailing indifference shown amongst employees, visiting families, and careless drivers (not to mention the absence of traffic control) to the real possibility of an emergency that will require the rescue of too many embedded residents of this overcrowded health facility.
The Commissioner of Police and the Minister of Public Works, along with others, need urgently to investigate the situation of East Street overladen with vehicles, contributing to the confinement of helpless patients and employees needing to be rescued – in an unpredictable emergency.
Yours faithfully,
E.B. John
