-residents appeal for repair
Cummings Lodge residents living near to the University of Guyana (UG) access road have issued a desperate plea for smoother rides.
The deplorable access road.
Stabroek News visited the area on Monday and severe damage to the road was evident. It has numerous potholes, huge and small, making for a very bumpy drive. According to residents, the road was hastily constructed just in time for the last elections and its present state comes as no surprise.
A cart owner noted that the heavy duty trucks that traverse the area have played a part in contributing to the deplorable state of the road. “De big …construction trucks that does drive on this road is wah really cause it fuh deh how it deh right now. Deh gat some works deh doing at de back a Sophia, an deh does use dis road fuh get in. I don’t think it gah suh much fuh do with de rains, cause it went like dis even before de rainy season step in,” he said.
The man further stated that many drivers find themselves fastened in the huge potholes or get their car tanks pierced when ever they get in and out of the potholes. The cart owner recounted his own experience of having his goods falling off of his horse cart when he is transporting them. “By how de potholes gat the road suh up and down it does cause me goods fuh fall off de cart when I bringing it in,” he said.
The sunken Crown Dam Road Bridge linking Cummings Lodge with Industry.
Residents also said that as a result of the poor standard of the road, taxi drivers are refusing to take them to their homes.
They are forced to either come off at the UG entrance and walk to their homes or pay additional costs.
Vehicle owners have also complained about the state of the road. “The repairs is wah killing we,” one vehicle owner pointed out.
Some residents are also convinced that the road has been damaged due to the heavy flow of traffic it has been facilitating since the installation of traffic lights along the embankment and East Coast public roads. “Since deh get traffic lights, most a de mini bus drivers does try fuh run away from de long wait at de lights, suh wah deh does do is use hay as a short cut fuh reach down to Town mo fast.”
This vehicle in one of the huge potholes on the Cummings Lodge road.
Meanwhile, residents are also complaining bitterly about the state of the bridge that links a section of Cummings Lodge to Industry. According to one resident, the bridge was not built with any engineering expertise and as such cannot withstand excess pressure. After the bridge was used by the contractors’ heavy vehicles however, the bridge became severely damaged to the point where it is now in a sunken position and is under water. The residents are also calling on the drivers of heavy duty vehicles to desist from using this bridge. (Femi Harris)
If the residences have patience, they will have a new road come 2011.
I agree new roads seems to pop up around THAT time (the people will eat the road to survive)
why is it that in almost every picture of guyana, the place looks like tha amazon jungle? the people cannot keep their sorroundings clean and clear? you have bush and weed growing every where and any where. the people are too lazy. garbage, bush, corruption, how do you expect tourism to prosper?
Tourists can come here and do the same, ah no big deal anyway…besides it’s the older folks that have the younger ones littering the place….how come?? well when the younger ones see the older ones throwing their garbage out of the car and minibuses windows and what else you expect them to do?? I’d say as mayor, everyone must have their lawn grass at no more than one feet high otherwise face a charge of no less than 5000 dollars!!
just come with your binoculars and camera to see all the animals and ofcourse the dinosaurs that roam guyana capital
and the corentyne…
is only one sector of the population living like that.
stabroek news ougt to visit atlnatic gardens and experience a simmiliar situation
Is that where u are living??….from the looks of these pictures Guyana looks no more different from some poor African countries.
you guys rich there , why can’t you fix your roads?? (atlantic gardens) ?
i would agree with baggie,how would encourge tourism in the country you go to other country small that guyana and you would be so surprise.
these roads are constructed by fraudulent contractors. one inch thick asphalt will not work, minimum is 4″.
money gotta split up so people can get rich quick.
If the current administration need a workable action plan that will see crime decrease, the citizes live a middle class life, while the country still turn a profit, tHen let them call ME for ASSISTANCE.
what a mess,where is the gardens city?(it once was there).