De Hoop road crumbling less than two years after repairs

Dirt washing away from under the road. The edges have also started to break.Branch Road, De Hoop, Mahaica, which was rehabilitated less than two years ago by H Nauth & Sons Construction Company has already started to deteriorate and residents have expressed disappointment.

When this newspaper visited the area last week, residents said there had been a huge hole at the centre of the road and apart from it being an encumbrance to traffic it had posed a traffic hazard.

One man said he decided to fill the hole with an “old tyre, bricks and quarry because I realised the danger. If we allow the road to go more bad is we gon punish.”

He said too the hole was there for a few weeks and “no one wanted to take the trouble of fixing it. People who don’t know the road could make accident in the nights and die…”