‘Road works shouldn’t endanger lives’ – Edmund G. Maduro
This is according to talk show host and commentator Edmund G. Maduro who spoke on his EGM Show heard on Thursday night July 16, 2015.
He said that when the road is dug up for repairs, it is the duty of whoever is responsible to ensure that it is sealed back up and thereby not pose a hazard to motorists.
“Please look at your contractors…when they go and they dig up one side of a corner or wherever, it should be finished within a day or two just to prevent accidents and to prevent someone losing their life,” he said.
“As a matter of fact I am scared to death to go up the Belle Vue Road. There are some areas if you don’t know the road or you don’t know what you’re doing you will run right over,” he said, despite the fact that there are guardrails in some sections of that road.
“But there are a couple of areas where it is so dangerous you could run off the road and damage your vehicle or even kill yourself,” he warned.
He said that the protection of lives is his major concern. “Let us not continue the development in such a manner that because of that people get killed.
Maduro mentioned that the Sophie Hill road of late has a lot of loose gravel on it causing vehicles to slide down the hill and this needs to be corrected.
“Let us not make a good job turn ugly. I am saying to you look at the safety of the drivers on the road. It is important,” he said.
Efforts to get a comment from Public Works Department or the Ministry of Communications and Works proved futile over the weekend.
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32 Responses to “‘Road works shouldn’t endanger lives’ – Edmund G. Maduro”
Can't please these small narrow minded $%^^&* tortolians all these !"£$%^^s do is complain while them @$$ get left behind
In addition, for the residents of that side road: when the works started we literally could not get in or out of that road. No one gave any warning or explanation of how we could still get to our homes. On the second day, we found out that there was a really dangerous 'back route'. Those responsible should have notices up and let people know. They should have had a man there helping people negotiate their way down the 'back route' (which was basically steep down a crumbling bit of concrete in some one's yard with no room to turn at the bottom).
Unfortunately, they have now finished building the manholes in the road and, as I expected they would be, they are elevated from the surrounding tarmac. What does that mean? It means extra additional bumps that are permanent, will inevitably cause people to swing around on to the other side of the road and increase the chances in the long term of collisions. Further down the road, these protruding manholes are already doing that since they were built a few months ago. One manhole also has a broken concrete lid causing a hole that has just been left there on a primary road for months.
I am not local. I am an expat. But come on Virgin Islanders: take pride in your country and tell the authorities this isn't good enough. In most countries, people would not put up with it!