Dear Editor,
SN of March 08, carried amongst others, a letter to the Editor complaining once more about carnage on the road – such a familiarly depressing topic. Yet over the several decades there has not been seen any substantive traffic management improvement. Not even a single new sign; though there is the promise (or threat) of increased traffic on the highways now being widened and extended. It appears likely that there are, and will be, roads increasingly utilised by foreign motorists, and indeed pedestrians, as untrained as motorcyclists.
As it turns out, since the debacle surrounding the Mayor and City Council’s attempt at metered parking the necessity for identifying, and building, parking accommodation in a dangerously over-crowded city seems to have been discarded, however illogically; particularly when compared to such facilities located in Bridgetown, Barbados and Port-of-Spain in Trinidad & Tobago, say. Which brings one around to the news in SN of March 07 – that of an eight-floor hotel being constructed – in the heart of traffic – at Robb and Oronoque streets.
Would the decision-makers concerned take note of the regulation long promulgated in Port of Spain which requires that such a facility must include in its design provision for parking its customers – as obtains with those existing higher level city hotels like the Pegasus and the Marriott. Or otherwise provide first aid facilities!
Yours faithfully,
E.B. John
