PWD to pay more attention to “potholes patching”
This was disclosed by Minister for Communications and Works Hon. Mark Vanterpool on NDP Radio aired on Monday April 16, 2012.
The Minister was responding to a caller who was complaining about the approach to patching potholes by the PWD and said he was just tired of their approach which was just “take a brush and brush it out (pothole)” and placing asphalt.
The caller said such a process is a waste of time and money and has been happening for years and continues to happen. He said those patched potholes, within a “couple weeks from now it is gone again when we have rain” and called for it to be done properly.
In his response to the caller, Minister Vanterpool said he strongly agrees with him.
“… is certainly something that I will be taking up with the Public Works Department and I believe they have been doing their best to try to get things going. They have gone through the whole island last couple of weeks and try to get things repaired like the potholes and so on. But we do need to take a little more comprehensive and better way of improving the roads. Even patching the potholes can be done in a more comprehensive and organized fashion so they can last a little longer,” said Minister Vanterpool.
Premier Dr. D. Orlando Smith who was the host of the programme, said while he agrees it is important to repair roads so they can last longer , it was also important to patch the potholes while Government work on its plans to re-engineer the road ways as there are so many potholes across the Territory.
Plans for 8 miles of road per year underwayMeanwhile, the plans by Government to pave eight miles of road every year is in the making and according to Minister Vanterpool, former PWD Director Dr. Drexel Glasgow is currently at the Ministry “working hard” to sort out the project.
“… from the eastern end of the island to come to town, will look at how we do the main part of town and get it organized better and roads paved in a better manner. There are areas where we will have to dig up the entire road and rebuild it to have a good base.”
However, he noted one of the biggest issues with fixing the roads to ensure that they are long lasting is the issue with drainage and noted that it takes a lot of time to plan the drains out properly and building proper drains.
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