Latest update November 21st, 2024 1:00 AM
Vreed-en-Hoop traffic lights useless – commuters
The traffic lights that commuters want relocated.
Numerous commuters have suggested that the traffic lights at the Vreed-en-Hoop junction should be relocated to the junction leading up to the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB), as they think the lights serve no real purpose in their present location.
According to commuters on the West Bank and West Coast of Demerara, the traffic lights at the Vreed-en-Hoop junction are never operational. Instead of functioning correctly, changing from green to amber to red, the red light only blinks. This indicates to drivers that they should stop before proceeding with caution.
These traffic lights could easily be removed and replaced with a stop sign, which would serve the same purpose and carry out the same function.
A better location for the traffic lights, drivers have said, would be at the junction leading up to the DHB in Schoon’Ord. A traffic light in this location would greatly ease the traffic situation at the DHB in the morning hours, they added.
It would also leave the traffic police stationed there free to apprehend persons who ‘bore’ the line of traffic, causing more congestion and significant inconvenience to the drivers who do stay in the line.
Drivers who cross the DHB in the mornings have yet again lodged complaints and pointed fingers at the effectiveness of the traffic ranks stationed at the DHB in the mornings.
According to commuters, the traffic ranks are there only for face value, and play no significant role in controlling the flow of traffic, or of apprehending drivers who continually ‘bore’ the line of vehicles waiting to cross the bridge.
“I can’t do anything about that,” is apparently the usual response, if any is given, that the traffic ranks provide other drivers who question why they do not stop drivers who ‘bore’ the line in plain sight of the traffic ranks.
Meanwhile, drivers have also sought to applaud the management of the DHB for the decision to allow two lanes of traffic to flow across the bridge simultaneously in the morning hours, in an effort to ease the backlog of traffic.
For 30 minutes, no traffic is allowed from the Georgetown end, so that two lanes of traffic flow from the West Demerara end.
This system has been very successful and has greatly eased the traffic congestion at the DHB in the mornings, along with easing the woes of drivers who used to dread the congestion and the traffic jam they would have to face on a daily basis.
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