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Ministry of Transport and Works officials completing road repairs in Goodland, St. Michael yesterday.

 

The Ministry of Transport and Works is getting a thumbs-up from the Barbados Road Safety Association (BRSA) on its efforts this week to address the potholes in at least one community.
 
President of the BRSA, Sharmane Roland-Bowen, visited Goodland, St. Michael yesterday, where a team from the Ministry concluded road repairs which started earlier this week, and expressed her approval of the work that has been done. Last Wednesday, Roland-Bowen started to erect markers at some of what she described as the “most dangerous” potholes across the island, and Goodland was where the first marker was placed. 
 
Reflecting on the job done, the road safety advocate said that the work undertaken in that St. Michael community is “much better” to the patch job done at Sargeant’s Village, Christ Church last week and she hopes that this is the approach that the Ministry will employ going forward.
 
Roland-Bowen’s comments came as she told The Barbados Advocate that residents in the area were “very appreciative” of the work done and lauded the BRSA for its efforts to bring their plight to the fore and its repeated calls for the road to be fixed.
 

“It has only been five days since we came down here and put down the flag and the pothole has been fixed and they commended us for that. We are hoping to see all the others that we have marked fixed, as well as the many others that are out there. We are hoping that our pothole report initiative launched only yesterday [Monday] will certainly help to identify where all those potholes are and assist the Ministry in getting to them to fix them,” she said.

 

Meanwhile, one resident of the area told this newspaper that he is “pleasantly satisfied” and said that the work done by the Ministry of Transport and Works will be of benefit not only to motorists using that road, but pedestrians as well, who he said were often splashed with water which settled in the potholes, as vehicles traversed the area. The resident who spoke on condition of anonymity said the potholes were becoming a “public nuisance” and he is very happy with the speed with which they were addressed after being highlighted. (JRT)

 

 

 

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