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Sloppy road repairs being done on Agriculture Road in Mon Repos

Jul 23, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
I wrote several letters pertaining to the deplorable state of Agriculture Road. I was delighted to see repairs on this road began about a week ago. However the road repairs are not being done properly – it is very poor and sloppy work. First I noticed they graded the road up to NAREI. I also noted with interest that they are throwing in some crushed brick or loom into these big pot holes. This is not the way to do this job.
First they need to cut these holes deep and dig out all the moisture underneath and all the slush in the holes, allow it to dry before they put in any brick, and cover it with bitumen. They are just throwing some bricks in these holes to cover/fill it and then they will throw bitumen or asphalt. One can clearly see this road has tons of holes on the edges and the edges are broken. They did nothing to the holes at the edges thus the sloppy repairs they are doing will not last a month because very heavy trucks, Hymacs, container trucks traverse this road daily. This road needs to be redone in a durable and competent manner and engineers should determine the weight of the vehicles that can traverse on it.
I need to know who has the contract for Agriculture Road? What does the contract entail? How far will this road be built? What materials ought to be used for this road repair and reconstruction? And who is the engineer overseeing the meaningless and sloppy work that we will soon read in the press cost millions of dollars. The job I see currently being carried out on this road is very slow and lackadaisical. And now I am told that they will not reach the NAREI site, half way down the road where all the bigger and deeper pot holes are. From the time they begin the rehabilitative works, they ought to have passed NAREI by now and reached the stock-farm at the back. But they are just dragging their feet on this deplorable, incomplete and incompetent job.
I am now calling on Minister Patterson to send an engineer into Agriculture Road to stop the work until a proper contract is drafted for a more long-lasting road. The Minister also needs to determine by weight, the types of vehicles this road can accommodate. It’s obvious this road repair I see being conducted is more suitable for bicycles and not these huge trucks and heavy duty vehicles that use this road daily.
In the view of the residents, administrators at NAREI and myself, this sloppy road work in progress on Agriculture Road must be arrested now by the Ministry of Public infrastructure or we will have a road (the contractor will be paid millions) that will not last a month. I see many roads built here and destroyed in less than a month; that is exactly what I see will occur here in Agriculture Road. If they are going to build this road it must be done properly with proper road materials and it must be tested by a proper engineer before taxpayers’ monies are paid to this incompetent contractor. I am calling on the relevant authorities to stop this road work now until proper repairs can be done before this contractor is paid.
Rev. Gideon Cecil

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