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Nails and wood pose highway danger

Sep 21, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor,   
On public roads or public ways or highways, it is imperative that drivers, pedestrians or all other persons using same be guided, instructed or directed by signs being traffic or other signs, now at Suddie on the Essequibo Coast.
There is a branch road that leads to the Police Training School, the Richard Fikal Police Training School, and the Essequibo High Court and the Essequibo Registrar which is housed in the same building.
At this junction there is a piece of wood with plenty of four inches nails driven into it, lying across the head of this branch road, the purpose of this obstacle is clearly to prevent vehicles, cyclists and even pedestrians form using the road.
I don’t know who are the persons responsible for having that dangerous obstacle placed there, but we all would know the damage to tyres of vehicles of unsuspected drives and pedestrians.
If for some reason, and they can be many, that the road must be closed to vehicular traffic and also to pedestrians, then the requisite traffic signs should be placed, and if persons are found removing these signs or not adhering to them, they must be dealt with according to the law.
But to place wood with nails on a public road that is likely to cause damage and injury to property and people is totally uncaring and uncalled for.
On making this observation on that road, it reminds me, of what happened on the East Coast of Demerara few years ago where a man placed exposed electric wires around his mango trees in an effort to prevent persons from stealing. Some little boys, maybe who were in the habit of doing so, suffered. I think one of them perished.
I would be surprised if the Police Force is in any way involved in having that board along with long nails placed there. But, if they were the motto of service and protection should be changed because those actions can only be described as barbaric.
Archie W. Cordis

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