More road, more traffic

Feb 06, 2026 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh Guyana discover a new scientific law: the more road yuh build, the more traffic yuh get. Is like hunger—de more yuh cook, de more people turn up with spoon. Government build new road, widen old road, add two lane, four lane, eight lane, and still by 7:30 in de morning everybody cussin’, hornin’, sweatin’ and late.

At dis point, road widening is like buyin’ bigger pants instead of goin’ on a diet. It don’t fix de problem, it just make it more comfortable for a lil while—then yuh need bigger pants again. Today four lanes, tomorrow six lanes, next week we paving people yard.

Every morning now is Olympic-level preparation. People leaving home 6:00 sharp—not to catch plane, not to go interior—just to reach work before boss start watching clock like CCTV. Schoolchildren half asleep in back seat, mother vex, father vexer, everybody vex. By de time yuh reach work, yuh already tired and yuh still got eight hours to pretend to be productive.

And de stress! People blood pressure rising faster than food price. Small, small fender-bender turn into full debate. One horn blow too long and next thing yuh see hand waving like air traffic control. But dem boys seh government solution simple: build more road. Traffic bad? Build road. Traffic worse? Widen road. Traffic still bad? Cut tree, take fence, eat sidewalk. Soon we gon have four-lane highway right through living room, and still traffic gon back up by de fridge.

Nobody want talk about mass public transport. Big bus? Train? School bus system? No no. That too sensible. Instead, every parent must personally chauffeur one child in one car, creating ten thousand mini taxis all going same place, same time. Logic take bus and gone home.

If schoolchildren had proper public transport, half dem vehicles wouldn’t even be on de road. Parents could sleep lil longer, children could reach school calm, and traffic might actually move like traffic instead of parking lot. Dem boys seh at dis rate, next budget speech gon announce: “We solving congestion by building more roads.” Everybody clap, then go outside and sit in traffic for two hours. Because right now, everybody moving—but nobody reaching.

Talk half. Leff half.

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