Dear Editor,
I do not want to start an inter-county war, but the inordinately high disparity between the cost for crossing a car over the Berbice Bridge (now proposed at over $8,000) versus the $200 being paid for the Demerara Bridge is now over-bearingly obvious….and of course very hurtful.
Admittedly the Berbice Bridge is ‘privately-owned’ while the Government owns the Demerara Bridge. But, it is the Government in the final analysis that is responsible for transport by ‘public road, rail and ferry including bridges’, and if it cannot provide these directly, then the least it can do is to subsidise the privately-owned bridge so that there is equity for all its citizens.
I plead with our Government to please consider how best it can reduce the inordinately high burden being suffered by citizens who must cross the Berbice Bridge. Minister Patterson’s advice that we should not pay the hiked-up cost is tantamount to saying that we should not use the Berbice Bridge which of course is impractical!
Yours faithfully,
Nowrang Persaud
