Soesdyke-Linden Highway - That is road!!

Soesdyke-Linden Highway – That is road!!

Jul 26, 2025 Letters

Dear Editor,

Kaieteur News – On Monday, June 23rd 2025, I traveled along the Heroes Highway, then along the East Bank Public Road before turning on to the Linden Highway as far as Hauraruni. I’m so glad that I rarely have to traverse those roads! It was a rough, bumpy ride!

Even though some sections of the Linden Highway are now being re-done, (hopefully for the better), I had to marvel at the excellent road work that was executed there more than five decades ago! That road, officially opened in December 1968, is a testimony to quality and real knowledge of what it takes to build a durable road!

Then I read in the online Stabroek News edition of June 24, 2025:

“A section of the Heroes Highway in the vicinity of the Eccles Roundabout caved in yesterday leaving a huge hole in the road and requiring emergency repairs.”

What really is going on? Wasn’t the Heroes Highway (aka “Concussion Road”) commissioned 2 years ago? Are we wantonly squandering taxpayers’ money? And that East Bank Road!! It seems to be forever being done and re- done. We fell into so many holes on our way back to town that I’m thankful that we reached home safely without damaged tyres, concussion or any form of travel sickness!

Best-selling author Philip Crosby has said…”Do it right the first time” …then there will be no need for a second and third attempt. He believed that leadership plays a crucial role in setting the tone for quality and defining what “right” means.

When will we learn? When will we get competent persons to build our roads again?

Claudia Heywood

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