Pedestrian crossing – it is about time

Editor: It seems like more than two years ago that we were advised that BRAGSA, the authority responsible for roads, was going to be working on the repair of the Murray Road within a few weeks. Long after, those few weeks had ended without the resemblance of the promised work being done. Around July of 2015, we were again told, this time by Franco Construction, the firm who had worked on that project some years before, that they were going to commence doing the work on the 13th of September 2015. But alas, up to now the work is still not done!{{more}}

Whether the reason for the hold-up is the lack of funds, or simply that the authorities are awaiting the completion of the Argyle airport, to make the vehicles and machinery available for the work on the roads, the failure to repaint that predestrian crossing between the Thomas Saunders Secondary School and the National Public Library is totally unacceptable.

It somewhat parallels the exhibition of the “wutless neglect” by the hierarchy of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Finance with respect to the addressing of the issue of the Black Sigatoka disease, resulting in the crippling of the banana industry in SVG. Considering the number of schools in that area, one had expected that the Traffic Dept would have seen the need to replace that pedestrian crossing with urgency.

The cost (financial) of addressing the issue might not even match the cost of the wreaths which the authorities may feel obliged to proffer, if there is a fatal accident in that area. Dr Gonsalves has recently made a strong call for the enhancement of safety on the roads. Let that pedestrian crossing be repainted NOW; it is about time!

LeRoy Providence