Earlier this month, the Mandela to Eccles four lane highway was opened. The East Bank corridor’s traffic woes have worsened over the years and so the Mandela to Eccles highway is welcomed to help ease the congestion. During his address at the formal opening, President Ali warned that reckless drivers would face penalties. If found breaching the traffic regulations, they would be ticketed electronically and be required to pay the Guyana Revenue Authority. If they fail to do so their licences would not be renewed.
There are too many reckless and uncouth drivers on Guyana’s roads It is a norm for drivers to breach traffic regulations in Guyana—they run red lights, stop, or park on pedestrian crossings, double-park, block traffic and speed. Illegally obtaining licences is a quiet norm in Guyana however, so some of what we witness on the roads are symptoms of the corruption in this society. And unfortunately, those symptoms also result in the loss of life for there isn’t a week that passes without the occurrence of fatal road accidents.
