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I am appealing to the Traffic Chief to look into this injustice
DEAR EDITOR,
On behalf of the thousands of commuters that use the Demerara Harbour Bridge in the morning, I am appealing to the Traffic Chief to look into the injustice that is taking place at the Western side of the bridge.
It is no secret that ranks of the Guyana Police Force are the architects and facilitators of a great deal of injustice happening every Monday to Friday at the western side of the bridge. If you approach the bridge around 06:30 hrs, the end of the line will likely be at the junction, however you will not get on the bridge until after 07:10 hrs.
That is only because the flow of traffic for both lanes on the bridge is moving from the western end to the eastern end. If it was not for that initiative, the wait to get on the bridge would be longer for those that join the line.
For those who are not familiar with the distance from the junction to the bridge, it is about a five-minute walk or roughly the distance from Courts to the Ministry of Finance on Main Street. Of course, the later you join the line the longer your waiting time will be, since there is little flow of traffic for those that join the line. This extremely slow movement and sometimes non-movement of traffic has very little to do with the traffic flow itself, but more to do with the police ranks that are supposed to control an orderly flow of traffic.
To many it seems like the agenda of the police officers is to punish those that join the line, by allowing the privileged users to access the bridge without joining the line. The ranks have unlawfully transformed what is supposed to be an emergency lane into what is now being described as the “priority lane” for the privileged.
This injustice is so organized that those in the line are made to stop for the privileged users to get on the bridge. It takes the privileged users little to no time to get on the bridge, while it will take the average driver that joins the line close to an hour.
On behalf of all the non-privileged users of the Demerara Harbour Bridge, I am appealing to the Traffic Chief to immediately look into this great injustice that is getting worse by the day. This all started with the police allowing a few vehicles to use the emergency lane, but that has now grown into at least 300 vehicles passing to get ahead of those that are following the traffic laws.
Some people say that peace is the absence of war, but peace must also include the presence of justice. The law-abiding commuters that use the Demerara Bridge are not asking for any favours from the Guyana Police Force, we are simply requesting that the police officers execute their duties in a professional manner by doing what they are supposed to.
Regards,
S. Singh
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