Dear Editor,
We are all aware of the ever increasing congestion on our roads, particularly with regard to access to, and around Georgetown. I would therefore like to offer the following suggestions to bring some measure of relief to road users, and further enhance our environment.
- Enact legislation that will remove all animal-drawn carts from our roads by January 2016. I am not aware of a single other country in the Caribbean where a similar situation exists.
- Concomitant with the above, strengthen the laws aimed at the removal of all stray/untethered animals from our roads and parapets, a real and present danger, causing significant damage to vehicles, and property, compounded at night by our non-existent or poor street lighting.
- Prohibit the use of tractors and trailers for the transporting of building materials and like loads, on our major roads and harbour bridges. Confine them to the farming areas.
- Institute laws to prevent the overloading of trucks, by the building up of the tray walls; the excessive concentrated loads are causing untold damage to our roads.
There is a lot to be done to take our environment, cities towns and villages, into the 21st century; however the current clean-up exercise is showing remarkable results, and what can be achieved by will and commitment. Cleaning up our roads and traffic will take it even further.
Yours faithfully,
Thomas Pinkerton
