Dear Editor,
There is an urgent need to re-mark the Sheriff St/ Mandela Ave. and the Railway embankment roads. It is near impossible for traffic to keep in lane or locate the right- and left-hand turning lanes both day and especially at night. The Sheriff St. /Mandela Road in particular should be high priority on the road marking schedule because of its complex turning lanes to access the various side streets and roads. Perhaps also better-quality road marking paint with a longer life should be sourced and with a better reflective quality. The Railway Embankment Rd. has also mostly lost its markings and is very poorly lit for night traffic.
The area around the 1763 Monument always needs to be marked. There is also a wide-open area in front of the monument which traffic drives on to in order to overtake on the blind side or turn east on to Hadfield St. I have suggested before some type of chain cordon be placed to prevent this occurrence and which could be easily removed in the event of special occasions. I recently wrote about the poor state of the East Bank to Timehri Rd. and was happy last Sunday morning on my way to the airport to see long stretches of recently repaved, repaired, and re-painted road. I have no illusion that it had anything to do with my letter but rather that of the recent U.S Secretary of State’s visit. There however still remains the dangerous islands at the Soesdyke to Linden turnoff which need to be urgently addressed by appropriate reflective paint or some other solution.
On a final note, there was a large truck on Sunday morning immediately in front of the Falls Gas Station on the same East Bank Rd. sitting on a jack in the middle of the northbound driving lane with no hazard lights or other caution signage nor was there a traffic police or other in attendance to help the queues of traffic which built up on both the north bound and south bound lanes. Middleton St. north of Duncan St. still has after over a year, and several complaints 3 large trucks filled with garbage and overtaken with bush obstructing the free and easy flow of traffic. The appropriate agency needs to take action. Nothing Prepares you for Guyana, but we can at least try a little harder.
Sincerely,
B.A Ramsay
