Express Lane through Cane Garden

Editor: As a citizen of St Vincent and the Grenadines, I notice that we have a trend of making insensible decisions and when things hit the fan, no one wants to take responsibility.

How can the authorities in their right mind allow omnibuses to divert through Cane Garden as a means of exiting Kingstown more quickly? These drivers always fly through the roads. What quicker means are they alluding too?{{more}} The care of our passengers must be paramount, so before Code Red can speak about getting out of Kingstown, he needs to address the dress code, conduct and hygiene of the many bus drivers and conductors. For the Commissioner of Police and Julian Francis, who seem to be afraid of Code Red, Cane Garden has a vast number of pedestrians on the roads both morning and evening. The roads are already narrow and the Long Wall road is riddled with parked vehicles, not forgetting the sea that awaits some pedestrians, passengers and commuters from the reckless driving of these bus drivers.

This is certainly a disaster waiting to happen. What the authorities fail to also realize is a number of senior citizens live in Cane Garden and use that very route to journey slowly, but carefully home. I hope none of them will suffer a heart attack from the infringement of the bus drivers.

More so, a lot of commuters also use that route to avoid these said bus drivers. We seem to be moving backwards rather than progressing. Will there be police along the route to ensure that everything is in order and when that time allotted is out, do the authorities really think that the bus driver would not travel through Cane Garden? Along the route, there will be chaos as every treacherous corner in Cane Garden will have to be approached with care, as these bus drivers create their bus stops along the route. Not because it’s an election year every request must be granted. I implore the Prime Minister to revisit this decision as it’s a disaster waiting to occur.

RS