Residents of Watooka, Fair’s Rust, Richmond Hill and other nearby communities in Linden, Region Ten will soon get some measure of relief from traversing pot-holed roads as $13.9M has been allocated in the regional budget for road works, while Bosai has pledged $5M to the local authorities to augment this sum.
A section of Casuarina Drive that runs from the Linden Hospital Complex (LHC) to the junction at the entrance of Fair’s Rust has been in a deplorable state for a number of years, though several entities including current and now-defunct bauxite companies, the municipality, public works ministry and regional administration had patched several sections at different times.
Today, the road is in the worst state it’s ever been due to large and heavy-duty lumber and timber trucks traversing it, and compounded by the frequent excavations done by
