New Highway for the Coast

Apr 06, 2022 Letters

Dear Editor,

Kaieteur News – With the ever increasing traffic congestions on the East Coast and the fact that hundreds of cars are being added to our roadways daily, the time is now right for a complete new modern highway. This new highway must stretch from Skeldon, perhaps with linkages to the proposed Corentyne River Bridge straight to the Essequibo via the New Demerara Bridge.

It must run along the back of the villages along the coast. Since the areas aback of these villages are dominated by cultivation, some parts of the highway can be elevated on columns passing over farmlands to avoid destruction of farms.

The road must have at least four lanes two in each direction with the center being wide enough for a possible railway line in the future. There must be connectors every 4 or 5 miles that will link the new highway to the present East Coast Highway. Toll systems must be established to use the highway for care and maintenance. Certain class of vehicles must be made mandatory to use this road. A new highway of such calibre will probably cost over a billion US dollars which the country can access through its new found oil wealth. Hundreds of jobs will be created and road fatalities on the East Coast will be reduced.

Trucks carrying heavy cargo will no longer need to travel through the coastal villages. Vehicles coming from Berbice to Georgetown will no longer need to use the East Coast road thus reducing traffic woes and goods and services will be delivered on time. Editor, in my opinion this project is more important and needed more urgent than the road to Brazil. This new coastal road will benefit more than 80% of the population and support agriculture and other industries on the coast. Rice and sugar can be exported from new deepwater ports in Berbice and ease the congestion associated with these large trucks in Georgetown. A road of this type will bring tremendous benefits to the people of Guyana.

Regards,

Renal Yusuf

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