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Section of Sheriff Street collapses, disaster averted
Employees of the Ministry of Public Works yesterday morning rushed to excavate a section of Sheriff Street, not far from the junction of David Street. That section had collapsed.
The hole (foreground) which had been patched on Friday last, was yesterday already showing signs of damage.
According to some of the ministry’s workers, who were on the scene, the section of roadway had been repaired a number of times. “The last time we patched that hole was about two months ago,” said one of the workers.
The workers explained that there was another hole across the road from the one that they had excavated and that that one was patched last Friday last in the wake of the heavy downpour on Thursday.
The constant repair of the same section of road caused the workers to think that there might have been a problem with the road itself, probably with the foundations.
“Since we keep on repairing it and it kept becoming damaged,” said one of the workers, “we decided to dig it, to see what the problem is. When we excavated it, we find this rotten culvert.”
Reports concerning the widening hole had been reported since Sunday night, last. As fate would have it, the hold widened and the road collapsed during the daylight hours when it would have been clearly visible to traffic.
While the workers of the Ministry of Public Works excavated the road, they said that they were not responsible for effecting the necessary repairs.
There was a significant traffic build-up
Before they began to excavate that portion of Sheriff Street, at just about 9:30 hours, they said they had made contact with the contractor who was supposed to repair the road.
When this newspaper visited the scene at approximately 13:30 hours, the contractors had still not turned up. “Up to now they still have not arrived,” said one of the workers.
Due to the combination of the excavated area and the smaller hole, on the other side of the road, the police were forced to channel traffic coming from both directions through one lane.
At times traffic had to drive on a structure constructed by a business place in the area.
There have been other roads, around Georgetown, in which similar craters have formed, much to the displeasure of drivers.
These drivers have said that their vehicles, and their wallets, are made to suffer, because of the constant repairs which need to be done on these vehicles.
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