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No reason for a new Harbour Bridge

Aug 13, 2012 Letters

Dear Editor,
Whilst reading Sunday 5th August paper, I came across the article where the APNU is calling for a new Harbour Bridge and heard no mention again which I suspected that what is taking place in Linden might be the cause of it missing the commentators and others throughout this past week and heard no mention of it.
Mr. Editor, the APNU is entitled to their own opinions but I totally disagree and there is a few concerns that I hope Mr. Harmon will raise in Parliament. Given the track record of this Government, I was astounded to hear that calls are being made for this Government to rebuild a new Harbour Bridge between East Bank and West Bank Demerara and no call for an investigation for the billions of dollars being spent as order by former President Bharrat Jagdeo and why the bridge failed after approximately six months of him demitting office.
Most commuters traversing the Demerara Bridge will agree that almost everything that built the bridge has been replaced by new ones so why the call for a new bridge.
One of the changes I’ve noticed was that there are new pontoons installed and a few days after the newly painted pontoons started to fade and there were signs of rust showing on the edges of all the newly install pontoons. Now I would have been happy to know what type of paint was used and the quality of steel used to make the pontoons because that looks like the cheapest ship paint (if ship paint was used) and the lowest grade of steel was used to build the pontoons.
Mr. Editor, when the Demerara Harbour Bridge was built each pontoon had four pieces instead of one piece that they have today, and I believe that if the new pontoons were designed that way, no disaster could have happened.
When one of the pieces sprang a leak that piece alone could have been changed without any major disaster. Today because of the designs, if anything happens to any pontoon, that will cause tremendous delays to commuters and motorists. I would like to know is why they allowed the contractor to build the pontoons that way.
After all the changes of the Demerara Harbour Bridge, I cannot see any of the old pontoons or the old steel frames lying anywhere around the Harbour Bridge area. I would like to know what happened to them, because as we all know scrap iron business is thriving in Guyana.
I am saying that the Guyanese cannot afford extra burden from this Government, because no one could convince me that the same nonsense will not happen to us here if they decided to build a bridge for us, so please APNU consult and get proper reason before you open your mouths in future and not just for making your name in the papers.
Sahadeo Bates

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