Residents fault works along Casaurina Drive

Oct 11, 2012 News

Rehabilitative works on Casaurina Drive are in progress but many persons have voiced their concerns about the drain currently under construction. They feel that it is too close to the thoroughfare.
“We all know that this road used to be a very wide road; now with this drain that they putting in here, it is evident that they did not cater for pedestrians. Where are people going to walk? A lot of children going to the Watooka Day School traverse this area. Where (are) they supposed to walk? ’’ a concerned parent queried.
That concern was echoed by many others.
Interim Management Committee Chairman, Orrin Gordon, also voiced his concern about the drain, and the road, which he called a very important carriageway. The residents of Linden, and those from Kwakwani, Ituni, Aroima, and even those from the Upper Demerara communities, are forced to use it, to get to Linden and Georgetown.
Some $20M has been earmarked to be spent on Casaurina Drive, inclusive of drainage works, Gordon said.
Noting that the present rehabilitative works resulted from a collaborative effort between the Regional Democratic Council, the Linden Mayor and Town Council, and Bosai Minerals Guyana Inc, Gordon said that the contract for the road rehabilitation was initially awarded to Sookram and Associates.
They subsequently gave up the contract, which was then taken over by Pioneer Construction. The drainage works were awarded to another Linden contractor, McRae Contracting Services.
“Residents have complained to me about the works being done on the drain, and I’ve brought this to the attention of the parties concerned, including the Regional Executive Officer, Yolanda Hilliman and the engineers, and superintendent of works. They assured us that they will ensure that the contractors do quality work.”
Gordon said that residents ought to be concerned about the road and its ‘closeness’ to the drain; “because the drain, now that it is being constructed on the side closest to the hospital, appears very close to the road, compared to when there was a large parapet where children used to walk to go to school.”
He said that recently he observed a schoolboy on bicycle ‘jostling’ with the vehicles.
“It was a bad sight, because I knew that was very unsafe. Apart from that, there are alot of senior people coming out of the Watooka, Fairs Rust and Noitgdacht areas, and along with the school children that makes two very vulnerable groups, so we have to ensure and insist in the circumstances that we get good value for money.
Gordon said that in the past, the road was ‘pretty wide’ and the parapet was ‘considerably wide’. “We used to walk with at least about eight feet between the edge of the road and the drain”.
In the recent past, residents had repeatedly condemned the awarding of contracts to contractors from ‘outside’ of the mining Town. They quite often ‘brought in” their own labour force to execute works here, the residents said.

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