Four lanes tun two

Feb 08, 2026 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys seh it tek real talent to build four lanes and end up with two. Is like ordering a jumbo jet and getting a bicycle with wings—plenty money spent, but yuh still pedalling in traffic.

Look how the PPPC government in love with four-lane highways. Every ribbon cut does promise free flow, smooth ride, and modern transport network. But five minutes after the asphalt cool down, the inner lanes mysteriously transform—not into traffic lanes—but into VIP parking for customers buying one plantain, two bolts, and a dream.

Take the Railway Embankment between Ogle and Cummings Lodge. Four lanes drawn up nice-nice. Then businesses pop up like mushrooms after rain. Next thing yuh know, both inner lanes on both sides get “temporarily” occupied by cars that have been temporarily there since last year. Result? Two lanes.

Grove on the East Bank Public Road? Same story, different sequel. The road wide enough to host a cricket match. But once the businesses line up, the road shrink like it frighten. Customers park right where the traffic supposed to flow, and the four lanes politely step aside and say, “Nah, we good—y’all go ahead with two.”

Sheriff Street was marketed as the crown jewel of urban mobility. Four lanes to move people and goods. Instead, it become a long concrete parking lot with occasional traffic passing through like a visitor.

De same thing will happen with the four lanes dem building on the East Bank as you approach Timehri. Customers done start parking on the unfinished roadways.

So dem boys seh ask a simple question: why spending billions to widen roads just to subsidise private parking? If the goal is customer convenience, say so upfront. Put up a sign: “Government-Sponsored Parking Facility with Optional Traffic.”

If businesses going to eat the inner lanes every time, then stop pretending. Either enforce parking laws like they actually exist, or stop wasting money on four lanes that turn into two before the paint even dry. Or stop approving businesses on our Public Roads. Take them further inside de villages and housing schemes.

Better idea? Build alternative roadways. Bypasses. Secondary routes. Roads that actually move traffic instead of hosting it. Because right now, we building highways for cars to rest, not for people to reach home before night turn morning.

Dem boys seh development is not about how wide the road look. Is about whether yuh still stuck in traffic a year later, watching four lanes magically disappear into parking.

Talk half. Leff half

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