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No street lighting for Soesdyke/Linden Highway – Benn
There will be no street lights erected along the Soesdyke/Linden Highway in the foreseeable future, according to Minister of Transport and Hydraulics Robeson Benn.
Benn made this disclosure during his address to the National Assembly and was at the time responding to the People’s National Congress Reform, Linden representative, Vanessa Kissoon.
Street lights erected along the East Bank Demerara Public Road.
Kissoon had said that the lights represented a plea from the people of Linden.
Benn told the House that it was not common to have a highway that is not heavily populated to have lights erected.
His justification for not erecting the street lights irked PNCR Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister, Aubrey Norton, who during his presentation used the opportunity to respond to Benn.
Norton said that Benn’s justification was ludicrous, given the fact that the majority of accidents occurred at nights on the Highway and many are attributed to the dark nature of the terrain.
In recent years, the government intensified the installation of street lights along the country’s Coast and East Bank Demerara.
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